From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>,
Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Samuel Ortiz <samuel@sortiz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] nsc-ircc: Default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:16:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080729191614.b8ee5fe8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730014439.GA24409@srcf.ucam.org>
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:44:39 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
So it makes thinkpads work? That's useful info.
We're getting there. Who actually authored the patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 2:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-02 15:57 [PATCH 0/7] Patches from Ubuntu kernel tree Ben Collins
2008-01-02 15:57 ` [PATCH 1/7] netfilter: Export ip6t_mh.h and xt_quota.h for iptables build Tim Gardner
2008-07-22 8:55 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-07-22 10:45 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-01-18 18:21 ` [PATCH 2/7] ata: blacklist FUJITSU MHW2160BH PL Chuck Short
2008-07-31 5:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-20 21:08 ` [PATCH 4/7] irda: Default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware Matthew Garrett
2008-07-21 5:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-21 17:40 ` [PATCH 4/7] nsc-ircc: " Ben Collins
2008-07-29 2:46 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-30 1:44 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-30 2:16 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-30 5:11 ` Matthew Garrett
2008-07-30 14:17 ` Ben Collins
2008-07-20 21:44 ` [PATCH 7/7] HID: Add quirks for fourth generation MacBooks (4,1) Alexandre Karpenko
2008-07-21 1:45 ` [PATCH 3/7] bluetooth: Add quirks for a few hci_usb devices Ben Collins
2008-07-21 5:08 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-21 5:54 ` Ben Collins
2008-07-21 16:00 ` Ben Collins
2008-07-21 23:30 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-07-21 1:48 ` [PATCH 6/7] pm: Config option to disable handling of console during suspend/resume Ben Collins
2008-07-29 3:33 ` Greg KH
2008-07-29 21:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-29 21:51 ` Ben Collins
2008-07-29 22:18 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-30 4:47 ` Greg KH
2008-07-30 14:20 ` Ben Collins
2008-08-04 6:28 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-07 21:23 ` Ben Collins
2008-08-07 21:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2008-07-21 1:54 ` [PATCH 5/7] [airprime] Add support for more devices Ben Collins
2008-07-29 2:58 ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-29 3:17 ` Greg KH
2008-07-29 3:30 ` Greg KH
2008-07-29 14:20 ` Ben Collins
2008-07-29 15:53 ` Kevin Lloyd
2008-07-29 3:35 ` [PATCH 0/7] Patches from Ubuntu kernel tree Greg KH
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