Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports
Sam Hartman writes ("Bug#877024: modemmanager should ask before messing with serial ports"):
> I'd be happy with guidelines that said something along the lines of
> by default, programs in Debian should not access a serial device unless
> they have high confidence that such a device is the kind of device they
> are trying to use.
Such a general statement would definitely satisfy me.
> I know that sounds horrible and we'd have to word-smith it into
> something that people could understand without being part of this
> conversation.
One way to do that would be to be to state the general but rather
abstract principle, and then to explicitly state the specialisation
to modemmanager and modems.
> I'd expect that if the guideline were along those lines, the Debian
> modemmanager maintainer would conclude that the new approach was
> sufficient. I suspect if someone brought it back to us later we'd
> support such a conclusion from the maintainer.
I hope that that such a supposition could be rebutted - for example,
by examples of misprobing (either predicted by looking at existing
devices, or actually experienced) despite the new heuristic.
Ian.
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