On Fri, 17 Jul 2009, Rory Filer wrote: > Looks like this suggestion would work as discussed, but at the cost of > editing/compiling/installing. For most of the audience reading this it's > not a big deal, but our modems are in the hands of consumers. Why on earth > would you expect an end-user to have to patch and install a driver just so > they can turn on a feature? I thought your point was that you wanted to _prevent_ the autosuspend feature from being turned on for modems that can't support it. So this is a question of installing a new driver so they can _avoid_ turning on a feature, not so they _can_ turn it on. > This patch we are submitting already does this > via our so-called redundant module attribute. Perhaps also not the most > elegant solution, but easier than patching/building/installing. But users will have to install your patch adding the module attribute. How is that any easier? Alan Stern -- 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
