Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:08:05 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>,
       Johann Wilhelm <johann.wilhelm@student.tugraz.at>,
       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, preining@logic.at,
       kristoffer.ericson@gmail.com, drussell@redhat.com,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Add the infamous Huawei E220 to option.c
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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@neukum.org> 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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