On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:23:42 +0200, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:

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> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, David Brownell wrote:
>
>> --- On Fri, 8/13/10, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
>> .> ... based on all
>> > the preceding discussion, I now think the best
>> > approach may be _never
>> > to make up a fake serial number.  Use the module
>> > parameter, if any, and
>> > otherwise issue a warning and don't have
>> > a serial number string
>> > descriptor (even though that violates the spec).
>>
>>
>> Agreed, and that's what I had asked for.  I didn't
>> see code faking up a serial ... did I miss such?
>
> That code has been present in g_file_storage since the beginning.
> There were some patches earlier which moved the code to a different
> location.  I guess you missed it.  The current round of patches doesn't
> touch that code.

Yep.  I originally moved code from g_file_storage to g_mass_storage (and
g_multi) but after David's objections the patches have been dropped so
currently only g_file_storage has this code.

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>> If so, let's see a new patch with no faking.
>
> An extra patch or two would be needed to remove the fake-serial
> generation.

This should be a straightforward patch.  If no one else does it
I can post it but it may take up to a month for me to find the time
to work on it.

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