Re: Bug#634916: usb-modeswitch: seems to have no effect on Huawei E169

[Didier Raboud <odyx@debian.org>]

reassign 634916 src:linux-2.6 3.0.0-1
retitle 634916 Linux modeswitches some 3G dongles in kernelland (duplicates userland functionality)
thanks

Dear linux-2.6 maintainers, 

I'm hereby re-assigning the #634916 bug to the Linux kernel, as per the
discussion held with Josua Dietze, the usb-modeswitch upstream developer.

In summary: the Linux kernel "modeswitches" some 3G dongles where
usb-modeswitch is supposed to be the userland tool doing this. Having this
behaviour hardcoded in Linux implies less flexibility and duplicates
a functionality already present in userland _today_.

Please ask if you need more information, cheers, 

OdyX