On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 03:07 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > On Sun, 2008-02-24 at 21:18 -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > I have no problem exporting a simple sysfs attribute showing if the > > device is either CDMA or GSDM. I would think with that, HAL would not > > need to keep any kind of tables at all, and then the device info only > > has to stay in one place. > > This would be ideal. IIRC the only reason for keeping the tables was > that there was no such attribute. Sounds about right Dan?
Yes, that was correct. However, we should keep the current HAL specification addition for a few reasons: 1) devices that are only supported by usb-serial; which includes things that are not CDMA/GSM modems 2) devices that are PCMCIA serial cards (which are matched only on class, not the manf IDs necessarily) 3) previous kernel versions that wouldn't have the magic sysfs attribute It would be worth exploring how to do this; but the problem is that since there are devices that support both GSM and CDMA, we'd need to figure out how to deal with that vs. sysfs-one-value-per-file. We shouldn't really call them "GSM" and "CDMA" but use the standards names as Marcel correctly pointed out on the HAL list. Thoughts greg? It would save us a huge .fdi file because then we could simply match on the linux driver name, and do some other magic in HAL itself to pull out the supported standards. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
