Bug in User Manual

[Dirk Hohndel]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 7:25 AM, Jef Driesen <jefdriesen at telenet.be> wrote:
>>
>> The DR5/DRX shows up as a filesystem on the host PC, and the dives are
>> available as UDDF files.
>
> Ugh. Is this another "fake FAT filesystem" like the Uemis Zurich?
> People really get too clever sometimes, and getting fake FAT
> filesystem right can be really really hard.
>
> Of course, maybe it's a *real* FAT filesystem, which would be easier
> to do but sounds very fragile. Or it's another filesystem altogether,
> more amenable for faking. Has anybody tried it?
>
> I'd love to see an example file. UDDF is one of the ugliest xml
> formats out there (with millions of strange and very specific tags for
> insane annotations), but we have some very rudimentary support for
> parsing it. And we'd need to do something like the Uemis device
> discovery thing to make it easy to import, so we'd need help from
> somebody with an actual device to make it really work well.

Maybe Heinrichs & Weikamp will provide us with a loaner. So far their
support for us has been excellent.

/D