Re: usb_modeswitch by default
On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:12 -0800
Dan Williams <dcbw(a)redhat.com> wrote:
The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need
modeswitching
than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take
patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because
they assert it should be done in userspace. Thus, usb_modeswitch is the
only thing that can handle *all* modems that need modeswitching these
days. Honestly we should just stop adding new Huawei IDs to
unusual_devs, and just use usb_modeswitch.
Who are these mysterious kernel developers? You don't happen to have
any e-mail saved?
If Greg Kroah rules that we should promote usb_modeswitch, then fine,
let's do that, and drop all Huawei nonsense from kernel. But I haven't
heard anything like that so far. In fact, the party line was exactly
the opposite: eradicate usb_modeswitch.
-- Pete