From: Josua Dietze <digidietze@draisberghof.de>
To: Frank Schaefer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
johannes@sipsolutions.net, chunkeey@web.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N devices in cdrom mode
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:29:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AEDD380.40408@draisberghof.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AEDCCA0.8050709@gmx.net>
Frank Schaefer schrieb:
> I really think the mode-switching should be done in the kernel and not
> in user-space for reasons of usability.
What is wrong with an udev rule entry? By the way, did the "eject"
command line tool work as well?
> It also doesn't "pollute" the driver with much code (adds a single
> usb_bulk_msg()).
That may be true for a single device but there are around 30+ others
which are switched outside the kernel, some inside usb-storage, and
this would add even more places where mode switching happened.
> Another benfit is that it binds the mode-switching to the driver. If the
> driver is blacklisted/not used, there will be no mode-switching.
But how would you access the storage part of the device then?
Josua
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warm meal while flying! Loriot
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2009-11-01 18:00 ` [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N devices in cdrom mode Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 18:27 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-01 20:02 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 18:29 ` Josua Dietze [this message]
2009-11-01 18:35 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-01 20:24 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 20:49 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-02 20:16 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 0:47 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 20:07 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 21:10 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 21:15 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-03 20:33 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-01 20:11 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 0:51 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 20:10 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 20:18 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 21:05 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-02 21:37 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 21:45 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 22:23 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-03 20:22 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-02 21:11 ` Matthew Dharm
2009-11-02 21:42 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-02 22:39 ` Alan Cox
2009-11-03 0:54 ` Dan Williams
2009-11-03 10:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 15:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-03 16:29 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 22:47 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-03 23:55 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-04 3:57 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 9:11 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 20:42 ` Frank Schaefer
2009-11-04 16:16 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 16:25 ` Johannes Berg
2009-11-04 17:07 ` Alan Stern
2009-11-04 17:41 ` Josua Dietze
2009-11-04 16:41 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-04 17:41 ` Josua Dietze
2009-11-03 10:57 ` Oliver Neukum
2009-11-03 12:58 ` Christian Lamparter
2009-11-03 20:18 ` Frank Schaefer
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