From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peteris Krisjanis Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:34:16 +0000 Subject: Re: modem-modeswitch versus usb-modeswitch aka future of Mobile Message-Id: 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 2010/2/25 Greg KH : > 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...) Ok, there are stuff which should be left in kernel. But more or less - do the rest can be handled by usb-modeswitch or not? Cheers, Peter.