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This patch does a few things (all in the same section of code).  It started
life as patches as226b, as280, and as275.  Later it was merged into as226e
and I added significantly to it.


First, this patch introduces a new config option to allow people to enable
write-protect detection for their USB devices.  With some luck, we've
finally got it right and can eventually remove this option in favor of
enabling this behavior all the time.

Next, we change how we force some flags on -- it turns out that there are
some 'generic' entries in the SCSI devinfo which was overriding us when we
didn't want it.

Finally, we add a safety check to the workaround for GeneSys Logic devices
-- if the max_sectors parameter has already been turned down, we won't turn
it up.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>

In 2.6, USB_STORAGE selects SCSI, so there's no longer a need for this
comment.

Here is little URL update for Kconfig file. I hope webmaster remembers to
put redirection in place next time URL changes.

This usb driver needs ide_fix_driveid from drivers/ide/ide-ops.c, which
needs BLK_DEV_IDE ("Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy
support") to get built.

Without this patch, you can configure an un-linkable kernel by doing make
allnoconfig, make menuconfig, and setting CONFIG_PCI, CONFIG_USB,
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE, and CONFIG_USB_STORAGE_ISD200 only.

Kconfig cleanup megapatch from Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>.

modules.txt no longer exists, and the common wording used to refer to
it sucks.  This is all by Nicolas Kaiser's: at Randy and Matthew's
request, "say M" changed to "choose M" (more sense for graphical front
ends, too).

of requiring users to select SCSI in order to see it.

From:  GertJan Spoelman <kl@gjs.cc>

  OK, here is a new patch, I edited the old patch and took out the .ko's
  so now the extension is trimmed instead.

This adds the driver config files. (part 2)