Adam Williamson a écrit :
> Hi, guys. Just wanted to propose including a couple of mobile
> device-related packages in the default install in 2009:
>
> barry-charge
> synce-hal
>
> the first one basically is needed so that when you plug in a Blackberry,
> it charges. Blackberries, for some asinine reason, require a
> (non-standard) power draw of 550mA; if they see a (standard) power draw
> of 500mA, they just don't charge. barry-charge includes a small binary
> which sets the USB ports to output 550mA of power, and a udev rule which
> just runs the binary when a Blackberry is plugged in. It's very small
> and won't lead to any extra resource usage unless you actually plug in a
> Blackberry.

Pay attention that on some VIA-related motherboards (and may be other
chipset makers), having the USB port with more than the 550mA will lead
to a complete lock up of the system (this happened all the time with USB
xDSL modems in France for instance). If you want this to be automatic,
why not, but a proper warning should be available (added to the udev
rule / release notes ...). The only solution to this problem is an
external USB hub ...

No point for the rest, though ;-)