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Re: Tips on programming usb devices?



On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 05:30:25PM -0700, Brian Buhrow wrote:
>       hello Iain.  Thank you again for your assistance in getting this
> Novatel modem working.  I now have a working driver which, when activated
> through the modem interface, fires up the ethernet portion of the device
> and seems to work quite well.  I'd like to commit this driver,aand probably
> the scripts to activate it, to -current, but I have a few style questions

I don't understand.  Why are userspace scripts required to "activate" a
kernel device driver?

It is nice to see any support for this device and devices like it!  It's
getting hard to find the single-function kind.



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