From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org,
ben.collins@canonical.com, samuel@sortiz.org
Subject: Re: [patch 08/11] nsc-ircc: default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:20 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080730170720.041577ed.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080730.170057.47288436.davem@davemloft.net>
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:00:57 -0700 (PDT)
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: akpm@linux-foundation.org
> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:37:40 -0700
>
> > This is 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.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <ben.collins@canonical.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
>
> Ugly, but what can we do? :-)
yes, it seems a reasonable compromise short of a full-blown
blacklisting thingy.
> Applied, thanks!
I have a feeling that 2.6.25.x and 2.6.26.x will want this one too. I
found it hard to judge how important this fix actually is. But
thinkpads are pretty common!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-31 0:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-30 19:37 [patch 08/11] nsc-ircc: default to dongle type 9 on IBM hardware akpm
2008-07-31 0:00 ` David Miller
2008-07-31 0:07 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-07-31 0:13 ` Matthew Garrett
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