Re: [stable] A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Feb 04 2009 - 06:20:23 EST


Am Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:50:11 schrieb Dan Williams:
> Furthermore, up until this point, I have not seen mobile broadband
> adapters (that aren't cellphones connected via USB) that *are* CDC-ACM
> compliant. ÂEverything previously has advertised proprietary interfaces,
> some of which are serial ports and some of which are not.
>
> Most mobile broadband cards *do* have more than one TTY, the others are
> used for additional control ports or proprietary access for stuff like
> GPS and flashing the firmware.

Exactly for this reason, the cdc-wdm driver has been added to the kernel.

Regards
Oliver

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