2010/2/25 Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com>: > 2010/2/24 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: >> I fully agree with you Scott, however I am not sure which one of us >> should start discussion there. Would be nice for you Ubuntu guys to >> start pushing this idea, because you have some backing. >> >> Anyway, I'm subscribing to that list and if no one will volunteer, I >> will try to initialize discussion. > > It looks to me Josh from usb-modeswitch has the technical capability > of explaining why usb-modeswitch is the way forward, and has also > implied that modem-modeswitch of udev has already been abandoned by > the upstream. Unfortunately he has just started his vacation (see the > usb-modeswitch forum), so there is not going to be immediate "backup" > from him. If you think you can express his ideas and references [1] > from his postings well enough, you can start the discussion on > linux-hotplug. Just try to be as polite as possible, since I don't > know what we are touching here :) But so far it seems that Red Hat's > Dan William has abandoned modem-modeswitch, and if also Josh's > argument about "it cannot be solved correctly in kernel space only" is > accepted, then usb-modeswitch is the natural way to go forward - > possibly by integrating it to udev. > > [1] http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?p=1906#1906 > > -Timo >
By the way, reading all materials, I just thought - usb-modeswitch now has nice udev wrapper - why not ship it by default? Why it isn't in main? Is there any objections to this? Patents, legal issues (I can't think of any, but still)? Just a thought, Peter. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss