Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 17:59 +0200, Kay Sievers wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 17:40, Ozan Çağlayan<ozan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> I wonder why there are two different userspace utilities for mode >>> switching on HSDPA modems. modem-modeswitch is shipped with udev, >>> usb_modeswitch is another project which is maintained as well. >>> >>> Do they diverge in some point? If not, are there any plan to merge them >>> together? I'm not sure but relevant kernel drivers for those modems >>> seems to also have some sort of mode switching. When I plug my Huawei >>> device which isn't listed in neither udev rules for the userspace, it >>> first gets probed as an unknown 0xffffffff device and then it gets >>> reconnected and probbed as a serial modem. If kernel-space is able to >>> handle those kind of quirks, why the user space mode switching tools exist? >>> >> Dan should know. >> > > Various reasons, none of which I care about any more, since the tool > works and as long as there's *something* that does the job, that's > great. > > We could move the mobile action code into a separate binary since it > doesn't look like it would be that easy to fit into usb_modeswitch's > current architecture. > So what I understand from here is that the tools are not mutually exclusive in terms of functionality. Is there a thing like "mode switching on X can only be done with usb_modeswitch/modem-modeswitch" ? I'm trying to understand if I have to package and ship usb_modeswitch tool along with the in-udev modem-modeswitch for making various devices detected out-of-the-box. Thanks, -- 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
