> I'm promoting the use of "option" to users who try to make their modems > work with "usbserial". From this point, allow me to ask what the benefits > are of a new driver if there is no real difference? This patchset doesn't provide any new drivers. It just means that people can make use of the generic parts of the option code without then also having to use the option-specific code. If devices don't respond to the option-specific commands in the driver, then really they shouldn't be in option. >> If they behave like option devices, they ought to go in option - if >> they don't, they probably shouldn't. > > > All of the current modems that expose generic serial ports are working > fine with "option". I'm still wondering what kind of benefits the new > driver will bring. Not sending inappropriate commands to devices that then happen to work anyway by chance? -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
