[Gtkpod-devel] iddevice library

[P.G. R. <p.g...@ph...>]

Hi people,

I have been investigating the new firmware/model issue over the last week
or so to the point of understanding how libipoddevice has got around it.
Thusly, I have a couple of points for discussion and clarification:

a) Being LGPL and libgpod being GPL, they are compatible in that I could
take code from the one and copy into the second. Is this ok from a project
perspective (feeling kinda guilty that I am piggybacking on their hard
work)?

b) A scsi lib is required for "grabbing" the xml file, which is rewritten
onto the data partition. The would be a necessary dependency for the
function to work.

c) It appears that hal and dbus are not required as the scsi function can
be called directly. However, two things would be required - mountpoint of
the ipod and the block device of the ipod's firmware partition. The former
is straightforward as it will be provided by the user but the second
appears a little more complicated. I used hal/dbus for getting block
devices in jnigpod so does anyone know of a method to get the block device
path based on a given mountpoint, ie. /mnt/ipod -> /dev/sda2 -> /dev/sda1?

Apologies taking longer than I thought it would.

Any thoughts welcome.

Paul (a.k.a. phantomjinx)



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