Old ZTE and Huawei devices forbidden in strict filter

Dan Williams dcbw at redhat.com
Fri Apr 27 17:10:23 UTC 2018


On Fri, 2018-04-27 at 12:13 +0200, Aleksander Morgado wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> Distributions have started to ship 1.8 RC1 and RC2 versions, and we
> already have some reports about the strict filter not picking up some
> ZTE and Huawei devices:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106234
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106253
> 
> Those reports are actually expected; these devices only expose 3 TTYs
> and so we don't have any clear indication of what kind of device they
> are. But these are ZTE and Huawei devices... and I'm tempted to say
> that we could actually be less strict for these 2 manufacturers... do
> we know of any other TTY-only devices that these manufacturers
> produce?

I don't know of any that are not modems.  I think we could probably
loosen them for these two USB IDs.

Dan


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