Use a specific device ?

[Jean-Christian de Rivaz]

Le 11. 06. 15 09:29, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
> Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch> writes:
>> Le 10. 06. 15 23:37, Bjørn Mork a écrit :
>>> Jean-Christian de Rivaz <jc at eclis.ch> writes:
>>>
>>>> There is not so
>>>> much modem manufacturers and each of them don't even release a new
>>>> product range per year.
>>> Ehh... I don't think we live on the same planet.  Did you know Toshiba
>>> is a "modem manufacturer"? Dell? HP? There are 43 (damn - I would have
>>> loved to see 42) different vendor IDs just in the option driver:
>>>
>>>    bjorn at nemi:/usr/local/src/git/linux$ git grep -E '^#define.*VENDOR' drivers/usb/serial/option.c |wc -l
>>>    43
>> Please provide a complete picture:
>> git grep -E '^#define.*VENDOR' drivers/usb/serial/* | wc -l
>> 174
>>
>> Not a such bit number. There are various vendor/product database on
>> the internet, I failed to identify a unmanageable number of modem on
>> them.
> Please go ahead and complete the driver whitelists, then.  It will be
> appreciated.

I am pleased by your welcome. It's now important to know if your view is 
shared by the others key contributors of the ModemManager project, 
because having a white list only will not be enough if the ModemManager 
project is not willing to change code to use it.

> I tried to explain to you why a whitelist design makes an incomplete
> list into a failure, while a blaocklist based design ensures that stuff
> works whether the list is complete or not. That is something to take
> advantage of whenever you can.  It's also used in e.g. USB class drivers.
>
> But whatever.
>
> You are advocating a change here.  That's fine.  But you shouldn't
> expect everyone to jump at your redesign ideas just like that.  There
> ore often reasons for the existing design, and those who designed it
> have often been through multiple incarnations already.
>
> You haven't convinced me yet, to put it mildly...
>
>

You can a least agree that I am not alone trying to find a solution:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688213
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85007

What's your observations that need to be addressed to get closer to an acceptable solution ?

Jean-Christian