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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:16:03 +0000
Subject: Re: Functionality overlap between udev's modem-modeswitch and
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 17:48, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <didier@raboud.com> wrote:
> Hi udev upstreams !
>
> (please keep me and the Debian bug CC'ed).
>
> I am the Debian maintainer for usb-modeswitch and I got a user reporting that
> his 3G dongle was not "switched" anymore [0]. After some investigation, I
> strongly suspect that udev's modem-modeswitch and usb-modeswitch have a
> conflicting functionality overlap.
>
> From /lib/udev/rules.d/61-mobile-action.rules :
>
>> # modem-modeswitch does not work with these devices, the fake CD-ROM needs to
> be ejected
>>
>> # ZTE MF6xx
>> ACTION="add", ENV{ID_CDROM}="1", ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}="19d2",
> ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}="2000", RUN+="/usr/bin/eject %k"
>
> From /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules :
>
>> # ZTE devices
>> ATTRS{idVendor}="19d2", ATTRS{idProduct}="2000", RUN+="usb_modeswitch
> '%b/%k'"
>
> It seems (to me) that those lines should be removed from udev (as usb-modeswitch
> provides a generic switching facility for more than "just" 19d2:2000.
>
> What is your opinion thereabout ?

If Dan has no objections, we are ready to delete modem-modeswitch from
the udev tree.

Kay