On Wed, 4 Nov 2009, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 11:16 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > > > Here's my first attempt at considering all the pros and cons. Has > > anything important been left out? > > [snip] > > I think you forgot to consider the case where both the driver and the > mode switch code need an update to handle a new device. This is relevant > in the case where a new device shows up that needs mode-switching, but > even after switching has an ID that the current driver doesn't know > about. This could be handled by programs like usb_modeswitch. The USB serial drivers allow IDs to be added dynamically. Of course, if something more than that is required then the situation would be different. However I think this is pretty rare. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
