[PATCH] Ignore Huawei E169/E620 USB GPRS modem

[Danny Kukawka]

On Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 11:48:31AM +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > On Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Isn't this common? The mass storage component provides a mechanism for
> > > shipping drivers. The kernel needs fixing up to reconfigure the device
> > > to present as a modem.
> >
> > There are some UMTS modems which provide a storage interface with some
> > MByte space to store driver or some software. That HAL detect these
> > storage interfaces as a storage device isn't wrong but the fact that
> > these get detected as CD-ROM is maybe false.
> >
> > Btw. IIRC you can tell the device with some magic tools/commands to
> > change to mode to not offer the storage interface.
>
> Yeah, and the kernel drivers are being extended to do that. I think we
> should probably remove the existing Huawei entry from
> 20-broken-usb-sticks.fdi.

Since which kernel version should this work?

Danny