On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello Buteo team! > > I'm happy to report that Paul's gadgetfs-based transport for the Media > Transfer Protocol (MTP) passes initial tests and that we obtained > permission to publish the code. We'll do so shortly and hope to get this > included in buteo-mtp. > > For those who are not aware of it, at the moment MTP does not work in > MeeGo because it relies on a Nokia kernel driver which Linux upstream > didn't want to see included in the Linux kernel. The new transport > instead relies on the gadgetfs API, which is part of upstream Linux. > There may be performance drawbacks (no tests done) when using gadgetfs, > but even slow performance would be better than no MTP at all ;-} > In our discussions with Paul, it was mentioned that functionfs ( http://lwn.net/Articles/383128/) is the way to go. There is already a beta driver of the functionfs available and it will be pushed to upstream shortly. gadgetfs is quite slow for MTP, so even though we have it as of today, it should be moved to functionfs -- Sateesh
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