Re: [Barry-devel] btool cvs.20070219 + pearl feedback

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 08:54:50PM -0800, troy engel wrote:
> Some notes regarding btool with the Pearl, as requested. Tests are on
> a Fedora Core 6 laptop with bcharge installed seperately in /usr/sbin/
> and Pearl's USB Mass Storage in 'Prompt' mode.

Thanks for testing!


> - usb-storage has to be rmmod'd as per the previous email; obviously
> if you have other devices (external hard drive) mounted, you have to
> unmount everything first. It's a workaround, but it isn't pretty. :)

Yep... this will continue to be a thorn in the side of Pearl mass storage
users.  It is possible to switch the perl into Product ID 0001 mode,
which will turn off mass storage.  Then the decision could be made
at the bcharge level.  Let me know if this is useful.


> - btool has to be run as root currently; I'm sure we could set
> somthing in the /etc/security console.perms setup to allow non-root
> access, but isn't /dev/bus/usb/005/001 (the 005 part) dynamic?
> Suggestions welcome.

I use a hotplug script, and it can be found in the hotplug subdirectory
of the tarball, or CVS.

Alternatively, you could use udev rules.  Copy the udev/10-blackberry.rules
file from the tarball into /etc/udev/rules.d as a starting point, then
check "man udev" and likely the MODE command.  I don't have a ready
made file for you, but if you make one, you could submit it as a patch. :-)


> - any btool usage causes the 'Do you want to mount?" prompt to
> reappear on the Pearl (just FYI). Does no harm just letting it sit
> there I've found.

This could be the Prompt mode, probably.


> Tiny buglet:
> 
> - all output seems to be like -v is "stuck" on, I get screenfuls of
> debugging noise no matter what command is run. It makes it a little
> hard to work with.

I've fixed this in CVS.

Thanks,
- Chris