Am Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2010 08:32:21 schrieb Dan Williams: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:01 +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > The question is why we want the huge option to just read status. In > > fact, do we want a serial driver at all? > > Consistency. Many devices already driven by option.ko (all the Novatel > ones, a few of the AnyData ones, the CDMA Huawei devices, the Dell > CDMA/EVDO ones, the Kyocera ones, and a few of the ZTE ones) already OK, this means that a serial driver is needed. > If option.ko weren't exposing these ports, then I assume the suggestion > would be to set up libusb to duplicate what option.ko is already doing No, a very simple serial driver along the lines of moto-modem. > I'm also not 100% sure that the QCDM ports will always be low-speed; > there appears to be an "NDIS" mode that many of the parts can operate in > where PPP is not used at all, but the data goes over the QCDM port I see. If that possibility is realized, a network driver will be needed. Regards Oliver -- 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
