Re: [libimobiledevice-devel] ipheth
On 3 April 2010 22:11, "L. Alberto Giménez" <agimenez@sysvalve.es> wrote:
> On 04/02/2010 10:09 PM, Paul McEnery wrote:
> [...]
>> Without wanting to say anything on
>> Bradley's behalf, it appeared as if he was in support of the tethering
>> driver being implemented in kernel space. That said, and given the
>> maturity of ipheth, would it be fair to say that ipheth is the way
>> forward in terms of i<device> tethering?
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> Reading the thread that you posted, it seems like the original author
> agreed to "kind of" support a kernel-space driver.
>
> And about your question, I *personally* think that it's the way forward.
> We have a hardware device that does networking. Si it needs a driver.
> And I'm not the best friend of userspace drivers, except for very
> specific tasks and to play a little bit (look ma! I implemented a
> filesystem with FUSE!).
>
>
>> Where do the udev rules and pairing utility reside?
>>
>> I see two options here:
>>
>> 1. Keep the ipheth-utils package and drop ipheth-dkms when ipheth
>> makes it into the mainline kernel. Given that mainline inclusion could
>> take a while, users (of Debian at least) could start to benefit almost
>> immediately since all of the packaging work has already been done.
>
> I think that this is the one that would fit my view (which may not be
> the correct one, but it's my view). Then we can handle everything else
> with package dependencies (usbmuxd, libimobiledevice, ...).
>
> There are still some issues that are pending to fix over the first
> driver submission. I've already posted a couple of messages regarding
> those issues (I don't have the knowledge to decide about the low-level
> aspects of the device or the kernel API itself) and contacted with
> Daniel and Diego, so Í think that it's close to get in (linux-next, I
> guess) if the list members don't have further comments.
>
> If you need help packaging (I think that you are the "future" maintainer
> for those Debian packages, am I right?), I have some basic experience
> with it, so don't feel alone, I can help if required :)
>
Hi Alberto.
I've left this for a couple of days to see if anyone else has
something they would like to add. Thanks for offering your help with
regard to packaging assistance. At the moment though, I think I have
it under control. Ipheth is currently in the Debian NEW queue, and
should be accepted shortly. At this point, I think that we will be
moving forward with option 1.
Once you have successfully submitted ipheth for mainline inclusion, I
will drop the -dkms package and simply maintain a single ipheth-utils
package.
Regards,
Paul.
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