From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759719AbYG3Bp7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:45:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758257AbYG3Boo (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:44:44 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:33454 "EHLO vavatch.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759612AbYG3Bon (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:44:43 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:44:39 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ben Collins , Marcel Holtmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] nsc-ircc: Default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware Message-ID: <20080730014439.GA24409@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1216618176.8411.124.camel@violet.holtmann.net> <1216662057.7585.153.camel@cunning> <20080728194612.01068283.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080728194612.01068283.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on vavatch.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 07:46:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > The changelog doesn't exist^Wexplain the reasons for this patch. > > I assume it fixes some bug? What is it? It's necessary to set the dongle type on the nsc driver in order to get it to work correctly. Thinkpads all appear to use dongle type 9. This patch defaults nsc devices with an IBM PnP descriptor to use type 9. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org