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Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N devices in cdrom mode

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Am Dienstag, 3. November 2009 16:16:12 schrieb Alan Stern:
> This sounds as if you are trying very hard to get the _worst_ of both
> worlds!  You would force users to upgrade their kernels before they can
> use new devices (because the kernel is where the mode-switch code will
> be), and you also would force them to upgrade their userspace settings
> (so that the new mode-switch code will be called).

Yes.

> I'm with Matt Dharm and Josua Dietze on this.  Jobs that can be handled
> in userspace _should_ be handled there.

There is the inconvenient problem of hibernation. And, if more systems
start cutting power to USB in STR, the problem of STR. I am inclined
to declare that hibernation is a problem of those pesky misdesigns.
But dare we say that also about STR?

	Regards
		Oliver

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