[maemo-developers] Features to improve the platform

[From: Koen Kooi]

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David Hagood schreef:
> On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 10:36 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 
>> Yes, that's a problem. Does USB support multiple profiles at the same
>> time? What I'm after here is that N800 would have both USB mass
>> storage and usbnet enabled concurrently. That would be really cool.
> 
> Yes, USB can have a different class for each interface, with multiple
> interfaces within a given configuration - so you can have an device with
> multiple configurations, one configuration offering USB storage, one
> offering USB networking, one offering USB serial, and one offering all
> of the above, each on different endpoints.

Even better, the kernel patch doing exactly that was written by the Nokia research lab in
brazil. Check linux-usb-devel archives (late feb, early march 2007).

regards,

Koen
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