From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?UTF-8?B?T3phbiDDh2HEn2xheWFu?= Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:40:10 +0000 Subject: modem mode switching Message-Id: <4A8433DA.3040003@pardus.org.tr> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org Hi, I wonder why there are two different userspace utilities for mode switching on HSDPA modems. modem-modeswitch is shipped with udev, usb_modeswitch is another project which is maintained as well. Do they diverge in some point? If not, are there any plan to merge them together? I'm not sure but relevant kernel drivers for those modems seems to also have some sort of mode switching. When I plug my Huawei device which isn't listed in neither udev rules for the userspace, it first gets probed as an unknown 0xffffffff device and then it gets reconnected and probbed as a serial modem. If kernel-space is able to handle those kind of quirks, why the user space mode switching tools exist? Thanks, Ozan