Re: [PATCH] rules: add udev rule for ath9k_htc (AR7010) device

[Rajkumar Manoharan <rmanoharan@atheros.com>]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 04:50:01PM +0530, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 12:58, Rajkumar Manoharan
> <rmanoharan@atheros.com> wrote:
> > AR7010 cards detected as USB Mass storage mode by default and an eject
> > command is required to switch to wireless mode.
> 
> This has nothing to do with persistent device naming, and the core of
> udev can not be made device specific. It's installed on all
> architectures and systems, and therefore such hardware specific
> matches can not be in the default rule set.
> 
> Udev rules must not call any tools from /usr. Some packages do that,
> but the main udev package should not do that. Note, that I absolutely
> don't mind if people do that, because I think /usr must _never_ be on
> a separate partition.
> 
> Also the main udev package can not ship hardware specific rules,
> nobody will care about them, and they will no be maintained here and
> just bit-rot. Maybe it can go into the usb_modeswitch package, which
> does this eject thing for many other devices?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kay
Thanks for your input and the rule has been integrated into usb_modeswitch 
package.

Thanks,
Rajkumar