From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sergei Shtylyov Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 14:38:38 +0400 Message-ID: <4BAF31AE.8070204@ru.mvista.com> References: <1269652919.30630.1.camel@Linuxdev3> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Brownell , Rory Filer , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-usb To: Elina Pasheva Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1269652919.30630.1.camel@Linuxdev3> Sender: linux-usb-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello. Elina Pasheva wrote: > Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] NET: usb: sierra_net.c driver > From: Elina Pasheva > > The following is a new Linux driver which exposes certain models of Sierra > Wireless modems to the operating system as Network Interface Cards (NICs). > > This driver requires a version of the sierra.c driver which supports > blacklisting to work properly. The blacklist in sierra.c rejects the interfaces > claimed by sierra_net.c. Likewise, the sierra_net.c driver only accepts > (i.e. whitelists) the interface(s) used for Direct IP traffic. > The term "Direct IP" is used within Sierra Wireless to refer to these alternate > data interfaces. The version of sierra.c which supports blacklisting is > available from the sierra wireless knowledge base page for older kernels. It is > also available in Linux kernel starting from version 2.6.31. > > This driver works with all Sierra Wireless devices configured with PID=68A3 > like USB305, USB306 provided the corresponding firmware version is I2.0 > (for USB305) or M3.0 (for USB306) and later. > This driver will not work with earlier firmware versions than the ones shown > above. In this case the driver will issue an error message indicating > incompatibility and will not serve the device's DirectIP interface. > > Sierra_net.c sits atop a pre-existing Linux driver called usbnet.c. > A series of hook functions are provided in sierra_net.c which are called by > usbnet.c in response to a particular condition such as receipt or transmission > of a data packet. As such, usbnet.c does most of the work of making > a modem appear to the system as a network device and for properly exchanging > traffic between the USB subsystem and the Network card interface. > Sierra_net.c is concerned with managing the data exchanged between the > so-called Direct-IP interface and the upper layers of the operating system. > > The version number of sierra_net.c driver is set to 2.0. > This patch has been tested on the latest stable kernel-2.6.33.1. > Signed-off-by: Elina Pasheva > Signed-off-by: Rory Filer > I doubt that it's Rory's email address. :-) WBR, Sergei -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html