GTA02 USB and battery current profile

[Mike (mwester)]

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!

Mike (mwester)