2010/2/25 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: > 2010/2/25 Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyri...@gmail.com>: >> 2010/2/25 Peteris Krisjanis <pec...@gmail.com>: >>> 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)? >> >> I think this is where come back to the beginning of this discussion :) >> Ubuntu core developers would like to follow upstream, and it's >> currently not yet clear enough what's the usptream direction (or what >> upstream we are actually talking about). Josh from usb-modeswitch is >> making the point that modem-modeswitch upstream has abandoned its >> development already, and that (at least some) kernel developers would >> like to see some of the things done in userspace like usb-modeswitch >> is doing. So I guess a positive round of discussion on the >> linux-hotplug mailing list Scott now pointed out would be what's >> needed to get some backing up to what Josh is thinking, and then >> Ubuntu could follow the direction most parties seem to agree with. >> >> At least for Ubuntu 10.10, but also if the current situation is not >> really wisely supportable from LTS point of view, freeze exception for >> even 10.04 LTS. There is only very little time, though. >> >> -Timo >> > > Ok, wisely or not I dropped message to hotplug mailing list about this > question. Let's see what happens. :) > > More or less this question would be nice to have freeze exception, > because USB mobile dongles are that important. It could be main > selling point for netbooks with Netbook edition. > > 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 -- 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
