Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:05:19 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ar9170usb: add mode-switching for AVM Fritz!WLAN USB N
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> apparently do use the driver CD thing to send Linux drivers and software
> to a few clients.  But by and large, the driver CD is completely
> useless.

And then every so often you need to rummage around the driver CD image to
extract the APN or other data you need to make your modem work. At which
point you end up having to recompile the kernel to get it. Very annoying
given it could be trivially done properly in user space.

HAL probably needs the database of these devices *not* the kernel.