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User Space Driver for USB Storage Devices?

Posted by Cliff on from the spreading-the-word dept.

Zarf asks: "With Linux, if you don't like something, fix it yourself. So when I couldn't get my USB pen-drive to work and none of the canned solutions were satifactory... I took it upon myself to fix Linux. I've posted my solution in my Slashdot user's journal. But it seems to me that there must be a better way to promote my solution. Where should I post my fix so it can help the most people?"

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  1. The Manufacturer by rmohr02 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Contact the manufacturer of the pendrive--ask them to place it on their website. If someone had the same problem you had, they would go to the manufacturer. They might even put your code on one of those mini-cds that the put the Windows 98 USB drivers on.

  2. Sir by gazbo · · Score: 5, Funny
    Slashdot is the wrong place not only for the driver, but also for you. You had a need, and used the open source philosophy to scratch your itch, and then released the code; Slashdot is designed for people who don't actually have coding skills, but instead like to talk about how great open source is because if they could code and if they ever actually needed to, then they could modify software.

    Oh, and for people who waste their lives gaming too.

  3. Hotplug by warmcat · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maybe you should contact hotplug, so they can consider to either include it in the docs or the package, since it just seems to be a perl hotplug script.