hal-info: Do not mount the CD drive of the Huawei E220 USB HSDPA modem

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 18:13 +0000, Sam Morris wrote:
> Package: hal-info
> Version: 20080215-1
> Severity: normal
> Tags: patch
> 
> The Huawei E220 is a USB HSPDA/GPRS modem. It appears to the computer as
> a USB CD drive, on which are drivers for Windows systems. Of course, we
> need no such drivers, so the CD drive is useless and annoying as it is
> mounted by GNOME whenever a user logs in.
> 
> The attached patch (taken from
> <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/105545>)
> causes HAL to ignore the CD drive.

That's wrong. There's a blacklist in the kernel for that. See:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/597829

It's even mentioned in the bug you linked. The quirk in the kernel tree
is supposed to poke the device into serial mode, from storage mode. Why
is that not working?