Alan Cox wrote: >> This "small piece of source" seems be the better solution because ppl >> from Huawei stated it will work... > > The small piece of code isn't even distribution shippable - consider for > example the firmware files with it - I can find no license. > > > If the right way to do this is with a helper app then fine. If the Huawei > will provide a redistribution license for the firmware binary data that > would help a lot too. > > I'm not against the solution - just against making this change before the > solution in question is nicely packaged, licensed and ready to use.
Alan, I submitted the original entry only a few months ago based on very little information. Now, I have more information and as I understand it, the entry cripples half of the device. Without this entry users can still use sysfs to get the same behavior as this patch (using 'unbind'). So removing it doesn't take much (if anything) away. I'd rather leave more of the hardware available to users more easily, since currently we're forcefully crippling half of the device. Since the original submitter of the entry, another user, *and* the company all want the entry removed - the only people who have ever expressed interest in this device with linux - it seems like the right thing to do here is remove it. -- Phil Dibowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source software and tech docs Insanity Palace of Metallica http://www.phildev.net/ http://www.ipom.com/ "Never write it in C if you can do it in 'awk'; Never do it in 'awk' if 'sed' can handle it; Never use 'sed' when 'tr' can do the job; Never invoke 'tr' when 'cat' is sufficient; Avoid using 'cat' whenever possible" -- Taylor's Laws of Programming
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