On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 06:34:16PM +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > 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? Sure, I don't see why not. 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
