From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.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: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:44:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730014439.GA24409@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080728194612.01068283.akpm@linux-foundation.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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-30 1:45 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 [this message]
2008-07-30 2:16 ` Andrew Morton
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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