You mean to say only Sierra has its own proprietary commands and no one else ? What is so special about Sierra that requires a dedicated driver in Linux while rest of all vendors share the same option driver ? Does Sierra do something unique and different from rest of all vendors? Thanks On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2015-01-29 at 06:23 -0800, Greg KH wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 02:50:13PM +0530, temp sha wrote: >> > Can any one let me know the difference in option and sierra kernel >> > modules ? looks like both drivers support GSM modem. And from the >> > source code perspective both look similar. I am able to load sierra >> > module for my Huawei USB dongle E156 and able to connect to internet >> > using pppd. Is it OK to use sierra driver for Huawei in case there is >> > no technical issue? If yes why there are two different modules? >> >> They support two different chipsets and control them differently. If >> the sierra module works for your hardware, great! Please send us a >> patch that adds the device id to the driver and we will be glad to merge >> it into the kernel tree. > > I'd really, really rather not have non-Sierra devices controlled by > 'sierra'. There are some Sierra-specific things the driver does, like > interface enumeration, enabling/disabling power state and NMEA ports > using Sierra-proprietary commands, and a few other things. > > Since PPP-using Huawei devices are usually done by 'option', I'd prefer > to have them added there, and if there is some issue, then I'd prefer to > have that issue fixed in option. > > Dan > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
