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

[Frank Schaefer <schaefer.frank@gmx.net>]

Dan Williams schrieb:
> ...
> Maybe there's a better way as I said a bit lower in the thread; could we
> put the logic for ejection into the driver (and not usb_modeswitch or
> whatever) but put the decision into userspace in udev?
>
> Right now the kernel drivers know what hardware they support, and that's
> a great place to also put how to eject the fake driver CD.  So the
> mechanism could live in the kernel still (instead of in usb_modeswitch
> in userspace) while the actual decision still gets made in userspace
> with udev rules.  The rules would say something like "if this USB
> storage device has an 'fakecd' attribute, then touch the 'ejectmeharder'
> attribute" instead of complex rules to run usb_modeswitch that duplicate
> all the device IDs in userspace.  If you need to rummage around on the
> driver CD for whatever reason, you disable the udev rule.  Maybe?
> ...
That would make system-configuration much easier and would also reduce
the work for the distros.
Mode-switch-tools would be much easier to maintain, too.

How do you want to implement this policy-hint ?

Frank