On Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:00:12 -0800 Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need modeswitching > than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take > patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because > they assert it should be done in userspace. Thus, usb_modeswitch is the > only thing that can handle *all* modems that need modeswitching these > days. Honestly we should just stop adding new Huawei IDs to > unusual_devs, and just use usb_modeswitch. Who are these mysterious kernel developers? You don't happen to have any e-mail saved? If Greg Kroah rules that we should promote usb_modeswitch, then fine, let's do that, and drop all Huawei nonsense from kernel. But I haven't heard anything like that so far. In fact, the party line was exactly the opposite: eradicate usb_modeswitch. -- Pete -- 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
