From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Kay Sievers Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:59:36 +0000 Subject: Re: modem mode switching Message-Id: List-Id: References: <4A8433DA.3040003@pardus.org.tr> In-Reply-To: <4A8433DA.3040003@pardus.org.tr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 17:40, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: > 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? Dan should know. Thanks, Kay