Felipe Balbi wrote:
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 ?
Serial console requires the debug board; most people will not have one
-- and thus will only be able to gain access to the phone via ssh with
g_ether.
(Also, for the GTA01 devices, even with the debug board the serial
console is disabled if the GSM is running.)
Mike (mwester)
