usb_modeswitch by default

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Thu Mar 4 21:25:26 UTC 2010


On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:46:35 -0800
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb at one-eyed-alien.net> 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. []

> > Who are these mysterious kernel developers? You don't happen to have
> > any e-mail saved?
> 
> I'm one of those developers.  We've hashed this out before.
> I'm pretty sure Greg's with me on this one.  If the device can be handled
> in userspace, then it should be.  If it's storage emulation mode is not
> good enough to handle in userspace, then a kernel update will have to be
> done.

OK, that sounds good. So, I withdraw objections after Rahul's question,
as far as Fedora is concerned.

On the kernel side, should we discard all the cruft un unusual_devs.h?

-- Pete


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