From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] rndis_host: Poll status channel before control channel Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:01:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100427.180138.56372092.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1271718508.2197.12.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net, john.carr@unrouted.co.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, vzeeaxwl@myfairpoint.net, herton@mandriva.com.br To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49722 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755074Ab0D1BBc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:01:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271718508.2197.12.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:08:28 +0100 > Some RNDIS devices don't respond on the control channel until polled > on the status channel. In particular, this was reported to be the > case for the 2Wire HomePortal 1000SW. > > This is roughly based on a patch by John Carr > which is reported to be needed for use with some Windows Mobile devices > and which is currently applied by Mandriva. > > Reported-by: Mark Glassberg > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings > Tested-by: Mark Glassberg > --- > Note that this change hasn't yet been tested with any other RNDIS > devices. John, can you confirm whether this also handles the WinMob > devices? I haven't seen any other testing for this patch and I'm real hesitant to apply something like this in that case.