Re: modem-modeswitch versus usb-modeswitch aka future of Mobile broadband On Linux

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2010/2/25 Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
>> Hi there!
>>
>> I am Peteris Krisjanis, and I'm doing testing and debbuging Ubuntu
>> distro - apps, hardware, translations, etc. As very regular Linux user
>> and practical advocate and migration specialist for 9 years, I am
>> quite interested for getting hardware "just work". I know it is
>> neverending story, but it shouldn't keep me and us from trying :)
>>
>> Anyway, I am posting my first post to this list to get more clear
>> picture about what's happening with mobile broadband modems within
>> Linux environment. Current situation is (as far as I understand):
>>
>> * We have some modeswitching stuff in kernel, but everyone would happy
>> to see it go to userspace, which is quite understandable;
>
> Not everyone, see the archives of the linux-usb mailing list for why we
> can not change existing devices that do this in the kernel today (hint,
> you don't want to break existing systems...)

Ok, there are stuff which should be left in kernel. But more or less -
do the rest can be handled by usb-modeswitch or not?

Cheers,
Peter.
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