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: Sat, 15 May 2010 22:54:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100515.225412.108764724.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1271718508.2197.12.camel@localhost> <20100512.234259.35058609.davem@davemloft.net> <1273930635.2564.23.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]:57196 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751348Ab0EPFyE (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 May 2010 01:54:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1273930635.2564.23.camel@localhost> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:37:15 +0100 > On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:42 -0700, David Miller wrote: >> 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? >> >> Still waiting for this to get tested. Is there really nobody in the >> world with RNDIS devices who can test this patch? If so, maybe that's >> a good reason to not apply it :-)))) > > This has been in Debian unstable since 1 May and I haven't seen any > fall-out yet. However I acknowledge that absence of evidence is not > evidence of absence. I think I'll toss it into net-next-2.6 and we'll see if any monsters come out of that. Thanks.