> -----Original Message----- > From: Greg KH [mailto:greg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: den 28 januari 2009 23:32 > To: Bjørn Mork > Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Carl Nordbeck > Subject: Re: Ericsson F3507g "stolen" by option driver > > On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 07:11:39PM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > >> When the 'mbm' driver is accepted upstream, the option.c > patch is > > >> no longer required, and the VID/PID can be dropped from option.c. > > > > > > As that seems to not being anywhere close to happening yet, we'll > > > just leave this as-is for now :( > > > > Are there any other issues preventing this than > > 1) the naming scheme discussion > > 2) proper patch mail submission > > ? > > Both of those remain to be done. Others might turn up as > part of both of them. > > > If the naming really is confusing to end users, then I > guess the major > > distributions will install udev rules to care of that. Such rules > > could also be bundled with the userspace tools, I guess. > > naming needs to be agreed apon in a LSB-compliant manner, > it's not a trivial thing to paper over. > > > The important issue now, IMHO, is getting the driver out and tested. > > That too would be nice. > > The drivers/staging/ tree can accomplish this if people want > to submit it for inclusion there. > > thanks, > > greg k-h > Hi Grek, I tried to rename it with udev rules but this only seems to work sometimes. If using it with the SonyEricsson expresscard it dont work. Still think it is better to have a seperate name for this type of device. And preferably a name that is promoted by MobileBroadband group. /BR Carl Nordbeck -- 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
