Re: Add the infamous Huawei E220 to option.c

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 12:10:30 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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