On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 10:45:56AM -0500, Mike (mwester) wrote: > Felipe Balbi wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:45:09AM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote: >> >>> Felipe Balbi wrote: >>> >>>> Just passed through my mind this idea, it would be nice to popup the >>>> user about which module to use, like when you attach an Nseries nokia >>>> phone to your pc, it asks "Pc-suite, Data transfer". How about that ? >>>> >>> Please send patches :-) >>> >> >> That would be done in userspace :-p >> Are you guys using HAL? >> >> You could install a hall-addon to check whether vbus is active and >> whether the cable attached is mini-b. If both are true this means we're >> attached as peripheral and instead of just starting g_ether (which is >> now statically linked to the kernel) you popup a screen for the user >> to choose. >> >> This means, g_ether and g_file_storage should be modules not statically >> linked to kernel. >> >> > Very good idea. But let's hold off on implementing this until things > stabilize a bit more with the device -- I rather often find myself in a > situation where the display is blank or trashed for some reason, and I > need to ssh into the phone to recover/debug/repair. Can't do that if > there's a popup on the blank or non-responsive display asking me what I > want to do!
It could be disabled for now, but why would you block serial console if there's something running on X side ? -- Best Regards, Felipe Balbi [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.felipebalbi.com
