On Thursday 16 February 2006 13:53, Sjoerd Simons wrote: > On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:25:33AM +0100, Volker Christian wrote: > > Package: hal > > Version: 0.4.8-8 > > Severity: important > > > > Connecting a Windows-CE device via USB causes a call to > > hald-probe-serial. This is bad for a Windows-CE device as > > hald-probe-serial is trying to open the ttyUSBx device what causes the > > Windows-CE device to start the connection-initiation-sequence. This > > sequence > > couldn't succeed, because no program is waiting for a connection on the > > pc-side. This wouldn't be that bad if the Windows-CE device would accept > > a second triggering of the connection-initiation-seqnence by appropriate > > desktop software (synce-serial). But unfortunately, Windows-CE devices > > didn't allow a second trigger. Hence, with the present hal-package no > > USB connection with an Windows-CE device is possible. > > > > A proper solution would be the integration of the SynCE package > > (especially the synce-serial package) into hal, such that > > synce-serial-start would be called instead of hald-probe-serial on > > device-connect and that synce-serial-abort would be called after the > > device is unplugged. > > > > Please let me know how we could achieve this goal - or maybe an other > > appropriate solution. > > Imho the correct solution for hal is not to probe USB serial ports. The > only reason for the serial port prober is that you can't know if /dev/ttyS3 > actually corresponds to a real device. But that's not an issue for USB. I agree, this is not really an issue for USB. I think this is a todo for upstream, isn't it? :-)
> > Now i must admin that i don't know a lot about how synce works, but it's my > opinion that hal should remain a facts database and shouldn't start > triggering system setup programs. That should be done on a higher level. I agree also. But unfortunately, i am not a udev/hal expert. Could you please give me some hints how i could automate this triggering at a higher level? I am willing to integrate this in the synce software. Desired behaviour: =========== Everytimes a pda is connected to an usb-port a special command (synce-serial-start) should be called - this initiates a ppp-connection. Everytimes a pda is disconnected from the usb-port an other command (synce-serial-abort) should be called - this shuts down the ppp-connection. > > What do you think ? As already said above, i completely agree with you. Thank you very much. Volker -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
