On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Michal Malý wrote: > I briefly considered leaving the switch up to the userspace and handling the > device in the kernel only once it's been switched. I am however uncertain how > to advertise this to the users. Writing a tiny app that would currently handle > just one device seems like an overkill, abusing usb_modeswitch seems counter- > intuitive as it's purpose is to handle various USB modems. Well, originally usb_modeswitch (beware, it's called "modeswitch", not "modemswitch" :) ) was purely for handling ZeroCD on USB 3G modems, and it's currently still by far the most common case, but there are other devices being handled by that package now; I for example recall some HP printers needing a magic USB command to be sent to it before they would start printing, and usb_modeswitch is handling those now AFAIK. So if we do this in userspace, I think usb_modeswitch is not a bad choice. Thanks, -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- 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
