airprime supports too many devices

[Dan Williams]

Upstream, airprime only supports one device: the KPC 650. That's the only device that airprime _should_ support, because airprime is supposed to go away. No new IDs should be added to it and none are being added upstream.

Unfortunately, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/208250 added a bunch more IDs to airprime, which is wrong. Sierra devices get added to the 'sierra' driver, and all other devices get added to the 'option' driver. But not to airprime.

[Dan Williams (dcbw)]

In fact, airprime has been removed for 2.6.27 since the only remaining device (KPC-650) was moved to the option driver.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/21/395

[Motin (motin)]

Using Hardy, I got only 0.5mbit/s when using usbserial. After adding my device's ids to airprime.c, recompiled and using airprime instead of usbserial, I now get 2.87mbit/s download rates.

I was about to request that my and other device ids should be added to airprime.c before I encountered this bug. Can someone explain to me, since airprime is apparently becoming deprecated, how I am supposed to achieve HSDPA download rates without using airprime?

[Dan Williams (dcbw)]

Motin: you add them to drivers/usb/serial/option.c instead, which is not going away and is the current place to put these types of devices now that airprime is gone.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

I noticed this as well. GregKH pointed out that airprime was a goner and we should move things away from it. I'll compare out current drivers with 2.6.27 and come up with a reasonable way to remove airprime, and push support to the appropriate drivers.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This is fixed in the 2.6.27-1.2 upload.