On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 03:38:06PM +0200, Josua Dietze wrote: > Peter Magdina schrieb: > >I have created patch for linux kernel which handles Toshiba G450 > >as a HSDPA modem. > > Honestly, I'd rather see a principal decision to do all this > switching stuff either in the kernel or in the userspace. Up > to now every device could be handled by "udev" and > "usb_modeswitch". Even proper device identification (beyond > vendor and product ID, to avoid ambiguities) can be done > there. And lately the "option" driver is bound to switched > modems via the "new_id" facility, with no immediate need to > add them to the "option" ID list. I happen to support this idea. But, to get there from here, we would need to systematicaly make sure that all currently supported devices would be supported properly by udev and usb_modeswitch, then remove them from the kernel. I don't recall the objections to moving all this to userspace, but I do remember that there were some. But, I agree, having all this in the kernel is (a) confusing and (b) makes it difficult to add new devices quickly and easily. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Maintainer, Linux USB Mass Storage Driver Sir, for the hundreth time, we do NOT carry 600-round boxes of belt-fed suction darts! -- Salesperson to Greg User Friendly, 12/30/1997
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