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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 08/11] nsc-ircc: default to dongle type 9 on IBM
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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:07:20 -0700
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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!