Re: Usb Modeswitch.

On 2011-09-07 01:38, David W Studeman wrote:
> I noticed that when I plug a Cellular USB device into my 3/4G Router running
> 1.9.19, my logs show that the cdrom portion of udev beat it to to punch so
> it gives that as the reason it did not use the modeswitch rules.
>
> Do we really need udev cdrom support on a running IPCop system? I can't
> think of any reason why a usb cdrom would need to be auto mounted in
> /mnt/usb. There are rare instances where people have copied something from a
> cdrom to a running IPCop but they generally had a build in ide cdrom on the
> device of their choosing to run IPCop on.

Installation from USB cdrom is not that uncommon, and since we now use 
fairly identical initramfs for installation and running IPCop, that's 
probably the cause for auto mounting.  (Basically udev running, finding 
something because usb, sr_mod etc are loaded ...).


Olaf

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