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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jonas.sjoquist@ericsson.com
Cc: oneukum@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC Resubmission] cdc_ether: Identify MBM devices by GUID in MDLM descriptor
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:09:59 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427.170959.256868398.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD17F81.4070301@ericsson.com>

From: Jonas Sjoquist <jonas.sjoquist@ericsson.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:07:45 +0200

> From: Jonas Sjöquist <jonas.sjoquist@ericsson.com>
> 
> This patch removes vid/pid for Ericsson MBM devices from the whitelist set of
> devices. The MBM devices are instead identified by GUID.
> 
> In order for cdc_ether to handle these devices the GUID in the MDLM descriptor
> is tested. All MBM devices currently handled by cdc_ether as well as future
> CDC Ethernet MBM devices can be identified by the GUID.
> 
> This is the same solution used in Carl Nordbeck's mbm driver,
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-usb/2008/11/17/4141384/thread
> 
> I post this as RFC to get feedback on however cdc_ether is the correct place to
> do the binding, or if it should be done in a separate driver, e.g. zaurus.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jonas Sjöquist <jonas.sjoquist@ericsson.com>

Can someone knowledgable with the cdc_ether driver review this change?

Thanks.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-28  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-23 11:07 [PATCH/RFC Resubmission] cdc_ether: Identify MBM devices by GUID in MDLM descriptor Jonas Sjoquist
2010-04-28  0:09 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-04-28  8:51   ` Oliver Neukum
2010-04-30 23:28     ` David Miller

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