From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755327AbZBDLUV (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:20:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752326AbZBDLUF (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:20:05 -0500 Received: from smtp-out002.kontent.com ([81.88.40.216]:45442 "EHLO smtp-out002.kontent.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751771AbZBDLUE convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Feb 2009 06:20:04 -0500 From: Oliver Neukum Organization: Novell To: Dan Williams Subject: Re: [stable] A patch in 2.6.27.9 caused device names to change Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:20:56 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Greg KH , Chuck Ebbert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org References: <20090202170238.348af36a@dhcp-100-2-144.bos.redhat.com> <20090203000529.GC9467@kroah.com> <1233672611.11344.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <1233672611.11344.6.camel@localhost.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200902041220.58180.oliver@neukum.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Am Tuesday 03 February 2009 15:50:11 schrieb Dan Williams: > Furthermore, up until this point, I have not seen mobile broadband > adapters (that aren't cellphones connected via USB) that *are* CDC-ACM > compliant.  Everything previously has advertised proprietary interfaces, > some of which are serial ports and some of which are not. > > Most mobile broadband cards *do* have more than one TTY, the others are > used for additional control ports or proprietary access for stuff like > GPS and flashing the firmware. Exactly for this reason, the cdc-wdm driver has been added to the kernel. Regards Oliver