Am Mittwoch, 19. Mai 2010 17:21:24 schrieb Greg KH:
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:46:20AM +0200, Marcel Hilzinger wrote:
I wonder how Moblin/MeeGo is dealing with this question? Do they use usb-modeswitch or do they have an own solution? I just can't imagine, that MeeGo-Developers also say:
"oh, it's crap, we won't use it"
To tell the user to call eject /dev/sr0 in a terminal is really not a solution, not even a workaround...
usb-modeswitch does more than just call 'eject' for some devices. It's the only way that a number of them can properly work.
As for MeeGo usage, I don't see how that is an openSUSE issue, could you explain the comparison please?
I just imagined, which distribution (after Ubuntu) could be most interested in having proper support for these kind of USB-Devices, and I guess something like meego, which is planned at mobile devices should have a real interest in supporting usb-modeswitch. So I wondered, how do they support UMTS-Sticks and why can OpenSuse not take the same approach. I _fully_ can understand, that seife has no time and is not interested in maintaining usb-modeswitch in his sparetime, but think that support for UMTS devices is a must have for a modern distro an should not depend on some developers spare time but be done via paid developer at Novell. The whole discussion is more a problem of deciding what is important for beeing in OpenSUSE 11.3 and for which tasks do we have paid developers and for which one has OpenSuse to relay on the community fully. I just couldn't understand, how easy it is to drop a real feature. I mean: what would happen, if the maintainer of growisofs would do the same and drop the package without having a replacement? Would we have an OpenSuse 11.3 without a DVD burning tool? I guess many more OpenSUSE users have the same feeling, that this is not a real longterm solution. I'm not involved enough in the OpenSUSE project to really help or to even give advices, but I think some packages concerned as critical by Novell _and_ the OpenSUSE community should be maintained by paid developers in any case. Best regards, Marcel -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Marcel Hilzinger Linux New Media AG, Putzbrunner Str. 71, 81739 München, Germany Tel: +49 89 99 34 110, Fax: +49 89 99 34 1199 mhilzinger@linuxnewmedia.de - http://www.linuxnewmedia.de ---------------------------------------------------------- Linux New Media, the Pulse of Open Source: Lawrence, KS - Málaga Manchester - München - São Paulo - Warszawa ---------------------------------------------------------- Sitz der Gesellschaft: Putzbrunner Str. 71, 81739 München Amtsgericht München: HRB 129161 Vorstand: Brian Osborn, Hermann Plank Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Rudolf Strobl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org