From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 04:09:57 +0000 Subject: Re: Why do we need usb_modeswitch? Message-Id: <20140526040957.GA15204@kroah.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:24:49AM +0530, Suresh Kumar N. wrote: > > Please let me know - > 1. Why do we need usb_modeswitch? Why do you think we do not? > 2. In case usb_modeswitch is used to just convert USB device to Serial > or Ethernet device (as per my understanding), then why not enumerate > the device as Serial or Ethernet device itself? Have you looked at the devices that need this program to be run? I think if you look at the USB descriptors of them, you will answer question #1 yourself :) Hope this helps, greg k-h