On 1 April 2010 14:07, Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > Paul, > > I missed you talking about ipheth on IRC earlier. > > I've seen the submission of ipheth on the netdev mailing list, and made > some comments on it there. If it is accepted, we can include it in the > Debian kernel packages and there will then be no need for ipheth-dkms. > You'll still need ipheth-utils. As for the udev rules, what do they do? >
Hi Ben. The udev rules detect when an iPhone has been plugged in and execute a utility (ipheth-pair) which ensures that the iPhone is paired with the system to which it has been attached. Ipheth-pair is a small program written in C which makes use of libimobiledevice. Essentially ipheth-utils provides provides only the udev rules file and ipheth-pair utility. Ipheth-dkms provides the kernel module source code... So I'm guessing that ipheth-utils could be a package which is maintained long-term once ipheth is included in the mainstream kernel, or... Would it be more sensible to have libimobiledevice provide a generic pairing utility and set of udev rules which execute it when an i<device> is attached? Possibly part of libimobiledevice-utils? This appears to be a cleaner solution than maintaining a separate package for the task. Does anyone else have an opinion on this? Regards, Paul. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
