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

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Message-ID: <20071129170805.GC10024@kroah.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:08:05 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
Cc:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>,
	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
Subject: Re: Add the infamous Huawei E220 to option.c

On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:01:49AM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I think that is what happened :(

I'll gladly take patches to fix this all up, I have a number of bug
reports for the suse releases with this same problem you are seeing.

thanks,

greg k-h
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