usb_modeswitch by default
Adam Williamson
awilliam at redhat.com
Thu Mar 4 20:09:54 UTC 2010
On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:07 -0700, Pete Zaitcev 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?
> In fact, the party line was exactly
> the opposite: eradicate usb_modeswitch.
if you're going to ask Dan for names and saved emails, presumably you
should provide the same :)
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