Hi Henrique, Le mardi 24 février 2009 à 14:40 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a écrit : > On Sat, 21 Feb 2009, Julien Valroff wrote: > > Sorry for top-posting, I CC Aurélien and Didier as they are dealing with > > usb-modeswitch which plays the same role as ozerocdoff hence leave your > > full answer below. > > > > Thanks for your help and explanations. I think we can work with both > > Aurélien and Didier to fill these bugs. If we can avoid using userspace > > utilities (be it rezero, oozerocdoff or usb-modeswitch), that would > > indeed be great, but do you think kernel developers will agree to > > completely de-activate CD emulation possibilities? Don't you think they > > **might** have a use for Linux users in the future? > > Yes, they will agree do deactivate it on any devices that get broken by it > such as the "Option GSM modem" (i.e. that don't work as GSM modems while the > cdrom emulation is enabled). > > Without a way to issue the flash-write commands to burn a new ISO into the > cdrom emulator on the GSM modem, it is pretty useless to Linux users, so it > shouldn't be too dificult to get a generic patch that avoid usb-storage to > bind to GSM modems merged, and selectively let usb-storage bind to a GSM > modem if anyone ever brings to our notice a GSM modem device that has > anything useful to do with such an emulated cdrom.
I am still studying things a bit before submitting these bug reports and am preparing to ask for ozerocdoff to be uploaded. I have been pointed out that the behaviour of such option modems (or alike) was not compliant with USB standards, hence there is hardly no chance that this can be "fixed" by the kernel developers (also see the link [1]) What do you think of this? I will anyway submit these reports for completeness. Cheers, Julien [1] http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-hardware-18/connecting-and-firing-up-a-usb-hsdpa-modem-on-fedora-9-677162/ -- Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org Rejoignez maintenant plus de 4 500 personnes, associations, entreprises et collectivités qui soutiennent notre action -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
