From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Why do we need usb_modeswitch?
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 04:09:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140526040957.GA15204@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALR+S1jo537Ov6EWp4Y19yuBek9-ZqregV3bch6iVZQoJVWqAA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 09:24:49AM +0530, Suresh Kumar N. wrote:
>
> Please let me know -
> 1. Why do we need usb_modeswitch?
Why do you think we do not?
> 2. In case usb_modeswitch is used to just convert USB device to Serial
> or Ethernet device (as per my understanding), then why not enumerate
> the device as Serial or Ethernet device itself?
Have you looked at the devices that need this program to be run? I
think if you look at the USB descriptors of them, you will answer
question #1 yourself :)
Hope this helps,
greg k-h
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2014-05-26 3:54 Why do we need usb_modeswitch? Suresh Kumar N.
2014-05-26 4:09 ` Greg KH [this message]
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