Freeze exception for including usb-modeswitch in main and default (was Re: Including usb-modeswitch in default installation?)

Peteris Krisjanis pecisk at gmail.com
Mon Mar 1 10:17:58 UTC 2010


A little bit *bump* - so, what we do with this one? Is there enough
reason for freeze exception for this one?

Cheers,
Peter.

> So far response from hotplug mailing list is been very positive so far[1]:
> 1) Some attention should be taken what is supported by kernel itself
> and usb-modeswitch and trying to port it;
> 2) There are some stuff in modem-modeswitch (according to Dan Williams
> of NM fame) which are supported only in modem-modeswitch, but these
> are rare hardware;
>
> More or less I think what happens here - user plugs device:
> 1) udev rules kicks in. If it's in modem-modeswitch, it's used, if
> it's in usb-modeswitch, use that instead;
> 2) if device is recognized at kernel level, no udev rules involved;
>
> All we need is to make sure that udev rules and kernel doesn't
> recognize the same device and therefore clash. For 10.10 we could make
> sure that all stuff in modem-modeswitch is ported to usb-modeswitch
> and drop modem-modeswitch in Ubuntu and probably upstream.
>
> Can we crosscheck udev both modeswitch tool rules in reasonable time
> and get this in 10.04 with feature freeze break?
>
> Cheers,
> Peter.
>
> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/hotplug/msg03399.html
>




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