From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] usb/net/asix_devices: Add USBNET HG20F9 ethernet dongle Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2013 13:11:54 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20130227.131154.341075972488849111.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20130226.172856.235525833921140241.davem@davemloft.net> <20130226.172955.926853809838377302.davem@davemloft.net> <1361975556.13093.3.camel@ilion> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: gdt@gdt.id.au Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1361975556.13093.3.camel@ilion> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Glen Turner Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:02:36 +1030 > This USB ethernet adapter was purchased in anodyne packaging > from the computer store adjacent to linux.conf.au 2013 in > Canberra (Australia). A web search shows other recent > purchasers in Lancaster (UK) and Seattle (USA). Just like an > emergent virus, our age of e-commerce and airmail allows > underdocumented hardware to spread around the world instantly > using the vector of ridiculously low prices. > > Paige Thompson, infected via eBay, discovered that the HG20F9 > is a copy of the Asix 88772B; many viruses copy the RNA of > other viruses. See Paige's work at > . > This patch uses her discovery to update the restructured Asix > driver in the current kernel. > > Just as some viruses inhabit seemingly-healthy cells, the > HG20F9 uses the Vendor ID 0x066b assigned to Linksys Inc. > For the present there is no clash of Product ID 0x20f9. > > Signed-off-by: Glen Turner Applied, thanks.