From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:16:28 +0000 Subject: Re: modem-modeswitch versus usb-modeswitch aka future of Mobile Message-Id: <20100225161628.GB1229@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 Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:05:51PM +0200, Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > Hi there! > > I am Peteris Krisjanis, and I'm doing testing and debbuging Ubuntu > distro - apps, hardware, translations, etc. As very regular Linux user > and practical advocate and migration specialist for 9 years, I am > quite interested for getting hardware "just work". I know it is > neverending story, but it shouldn't keep me and us from trying :) > > Anyway, I am posting my first post to this list to get more clear > picture about what's happening with mobile broadband modems within > Linux environment. Current situation is (as far as I understand): > > * We have some modeswitching stuff in kernel, but everyone would happy > to see it go to userspace, which is quite understandable; Not everyone, see the archives of the linux-usb mailing list for why we can not change existing devices that do this in the kernel today (hint, you don't want to break existing systems...) thanks, greg k-h