On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 15:17 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Sat, 23 Jan 2016, Michal Malý wrote: > > > I briefly considered leaving the switch up to the userspace and > handling the > > device in the kernel only once it's been switched. I am however > uncertain how > > to advertise this to the users. Writing a tiny app that would > currently handle > > just one device seems like an overkill, abusing usb_modeswitch > seems counter- > > intuitive as it's purpose is to handle various USB modems. > > Well, originally usb_modeswitch (beware, it's called "modeswitch", > not > "modemswitch" :) ) was purely for handling ZeroCD on USB 3G modems, > and > it's currently still by far the most common case, but there are > other > devices being handled by that package now; I for example recall some > HP printers needing a magic USB command to be sent to it before they > would > start printing, and usb_modeswitch is handling those now AFAIK. > > So if we do this in userspace, I think usb_modeswitch is not a bad > choice.
Ok, that's interesting... I tinkered with usb_modeswitch a bit and I made it switch the G920 just fine after a while. Consider the patches dropped then, letting usb_modeswitch take care of this sounds reasonable. Michal
