On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 02:25:26PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > On Thu, 4 Mar 2010 12:46:35 -0800 > Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. [] > > > > Who are these mysterious kernel developers? You don't happen to have > > > any e-mail saved? > > > > I'm one of those developers. We've hashed this out before. > > I'm pretty sure Greg's with me on this one. If the device can be handled > > in userspace, then it should be. If it's storage emulation mode is not > > good enough to handle in userspace, then a kernel update will have to be > > done. > > OK, that sounds good. So, I withdraw objections after Rahul's question, > as far as Fedora is concerned. > > On the kernel side, should we discard all the cruft un unusual_devs.h? We don't want to cause anyone who's current system is working just fine, to have to go add usb-modeswitch to it to get it to continue to work. So the idea is to just stick with what we currently have for a few years. Sound good? thanks, greg k-h -- 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
