On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 13:07 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
The problem is that there are a ton more devices that need modeswitching than just Huawei, and upstream USB developers are refusing to take patches that add more devices to the kernel modeswitching code because they assert it should be done in userspace. Thus, usb_modeswitch is the only thing that can handle *all* modems that need modeswitching these days. Honestly we should just stop adding new Huawei IDs to unusual_devs, and just use usb_modeswitch.
Who are these mysterious kernel developers? You don't happen to have any e-mail saved?
In fact, the party line was exactly the opposite: eradicate usb_modeswitch.
if you're going to ask Dan for names and saved emails, presumably you should provide the same :)