Re: While waiting for MBIM support

[Bjørn Mork <bjorn mork no>]

Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> writes:
> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 19:48 +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
>
> > 3) devices like the Ericsson H5321gw, having NCM compatible MBIM
> >  interfaces using different altsettings.
> >
> >  Could be forced to NCM by setting the cdc_ncm parameter "prefer_mbim"
> >  (new in Linux v3.8.5/v3.9) to false.
>
> I forget, is this a module parameter? 

Yes.

> If so, that's a non-starter
> because userspace programs shouldn't really be loading/unloading modules
> or playing around with module parameters...

OK?  Why is that?  No, I wouldn't let it load/unload anything, but
installing a /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf snippet shouldn't hurt more than
installing any udev rule?

I don't like the module parameter, but that was the best I could come up
with and there no other proposals.  Unfortunately too late to fix it
now.  I would still like to hear about better alternatives.  Maybe I'll
remember them the next time :)


Bjørn