> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Stern [mailto:stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 12:22 PM > > 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. > I think my previous email (just sent) explains our reasoning well enough. > > But users will have to install your patch adding the module attribute. > How is that any easier? Er... I thought the point of submitting these patch requests was to get the changes incorporated into the kernel. -- 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
