linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: storage: fix Huawei mode switching regression

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Message-ID: <1362407359.3768.337.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:29:19 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc:	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fangxiaozhi@...wei.com, zihan@...wei.com, Lin.Lei@...wei.com,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, neil.yi@...wei.com,
	wangyuhua@...wei.com, huqiao36@...wei.com, balbi@...com,
	mdharm-usb@...-eyed-alien.net, sebastian@...akpoint.cc,
	stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: storage: fix Huawei mode switching regression

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:19 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
[...]
> In-kernel mode switching was deprecated years ago with the
> development of the more user friendly userspace alternatives. The
> existing list of devices in usb-storage was only kept to prevent
> breaking already working systems.  The long term plan is to remove
> the list, not to add to it. Ref:
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.usb.general/28543
[...]

Can you add a comment to this effect?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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