Re: [PATCH] USB: storage: Ignore driver CD mode for Realtek multi-mode Wi-Fi dongles

[Zenm Chen <zenmchen@gmail.com>]

Giorgi <giorgitchankvetadze1997@gmail.com> 於 2025年8月14日 週四 上午2:07寫道：
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> Maybe we could only add US_FL_IGNORE_DEVICE for the exact Realtek-based models (Mercury MW310UH, D-Link AX9U, etc.) that fail with usb_modeswitch.
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> This avoids disabling access to the emulated CD for unrelated devices.

All the Realtek multi-mode Wi-Fi dongles share these two ID (0bda:1a2b and 0bda:a192), so I don't know how to achieve this. 

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> On August 13, 2025 9:53:12 PM GMT+04:00, Zenm Chen <zenmchen@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 於 2025年8月14日 週四 上午12:58寫道：
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>>>  On Thu, Aug 14, 2025 at 12:24:15AM +0800, Zenm Chen wrote:
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>>>> Many Realtek USB Wi-Fi dongles released in recent years have two modes:
>>>> one is driver CD mode which has Windows driver onboard, another one is
>>>> Wi-Fi mode. Add the US_FL_IGNORE_DEVICE quirk for these multi-mode devices.
>>>> Otherwise, usb_modeswitch may fail to switch them to Wi-Fi mode.
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>>>
>>>  There are several other entries like this already in the unusual_devs.h
>>>  file.  But I wonder if we really still need them.  Shouldn't the
>>>  usb_modeswitch program be smart enough by now to know how to handle
>>>  these things?
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>> Hi Alan,
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>> Thanks for your review and reply.
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>> Without this patch applied, usb_modeswitch cannot switch my Mercury MW310UH
>> into Wi-Fi mode [1]. I also ran into a similar problem like [2] with D-Link
>> AX9U, so I believe this patch is needed.
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>>>
>>>  In theory, someone might want to access the Windows driver on the
>>>  emulated CD.  With this quirk, they wouldn't be able to.
>>>
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>> Actually an emulated CD doesn't appear when I insert these 2 Wi-Fi dongles into
>> my Linux PC, so users cannot access that Windows driver even if this patch is not
>> applied.
>>
>>> Alan Stern
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>> [1] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YfWUTxKnvSeu1egMSwcF-memu3Kis8Mg/view?usp=drive_link
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>> [2] https://github.com/morrownr/rtw89/issues/10
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