GTA02 USB and battery current profile

[Felipe Balbi]

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 ?

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Felipe Balbi
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