On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 06:21:11AM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 18:37, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 10:00:59AM +0200, Jar wrote: > >> Greg KH wrote: > >>> HAL contains a list of these modems and a mapping of each port to what > >>> it does based on the specific device. > >>> Try using that instead of udev specific rules for your accessed to the > >>> modem, it will work much better. > >> > >> Thanks for your reply! Does HAL require that I have desktop installed, this > >> is my home "server" machine without X? Do you have any starting point or > >> where to learn more how to do this with HAL. > > > > I do not think HAL requires X. Try asking on your distro mailing list > > for how they have incorporated HAL into the releases you are using. > > It might get pretty complicated to use D-Bus/HAL for simple setups, > and rather static configurations like this. NetworkManager handles > that, and we will even get modem-probing soon, but in cases like this > it might be easier to have a simple - not very flexible - but working > solution. > > Maybe we can have an "index" sysfs file at the serial device, which > carries the instance number, per usb device? This would allow us to > create persistent links which do not depend on the kernel device > enumeration across multiple device. > > We did the same for v4l devices recently: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=539a7555b31e65e66fb84c881d07d2bf18c974d0 > > Greg, what do you think? Don't we already have something like this today (the "ports" on an individual usb-serial device)? Or do we just need to export that a bit better? I have no objection to something like this if it would help out. But I think the bigger problem is that userspace doesn't always "know" which port does what for which type of device. That is something that we have talked about adding as a sysfs attribute a while ago, but it never went very far as no one had a patch :( thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
