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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:20:56 +0100
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [stable]  A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change

Am Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:50:11 schrieb Dan Williams:
> Furthermore, up until this point, I have not seen mobile broadband
> adapters (that aren't cellphones connected via USB) that *are* CDC-ACM
> compliant.  Everything previously has advertised proprietary interfaces,
> some of which are serial ports and some of which are not.
> 
> Most mobile broadband cards *do* have more than one TTY, the others are
> used for additional control ports or proprietary access for stuff like
> GPS and flashing the firmware.

Exactly for this reason, the cdc-wdm driver has been added to the kernel.

	Regards
		Oliver

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