USB CDC ACM modems proliferation in 10-modem.fdi - please stop

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Fri Nov 7 06:43:14 PST 2008


On Freitag, 7. November 2008, Alex Kanavin wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> please do not add modems that are CDC ACM compliant to 10-modem.fdi -
> there is a hal prober that takes care of them all:
> http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15346
> I'm specifically referring to Nokia mobile phones, but I'm quite sure
> many other recently added phones should be removed as well.

IIRC there were some objections against probing tty devices via HAL in the 
thread where this was already discussed. What about these objections?

Because of this it's IMO nothing for the upcomming release because it needs 
more testing before put it into a release.

Danny


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