linux-kernel - Re: Add the infamous Huawei E220 to option.c

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Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:01:49 -0800
From:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
To:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
Cc:	Johann Wilhelm <johann.wilhelm@...dent.tugraz.at>,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, preining@...ic.at,
	kristoffer.ericson@...il.com, drussell@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zaitcev@...hat.com
Subject: Re: Add the infamous Huawei E220 to option.c

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:44:38 +0100, Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org> wrote:

> 3. Make sure usbcore doesn't probe the devices in the wrong mode with the 
> option driver

This fixes duplication. And to take it further, why don't we turn this
idea around and let usb-storage fail to attach with some "ignore" quirk?
I suspect that someone put the initializer into usb-storage in order
to let the generic usb serial to work, but this simply was a bad idea.

-- Pete
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