Re: [PATCH net,stable] net: usb: Add HP hs2434 device to ZLP exception table

[David Miller <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/mPfg9Q@public.gmane.org>]

From: Rob Gardner <robmatic-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:40:22 -0600

> The exception list means "usb_device_id entries for specific devices
> that are known to need the workaround." There are just two such entries.
> There isn't even a separate list. So maybe we just have a nomenclature
> problem, and we could simply be calling this a "white list" instead of
> "exception list". The other possible meaning of whitelist (all devices
> that *don't* need the workaround) is unthinkable, as that would be a huge
> list and much more prone to be unmanageable than what we've got now.

Ok I misunderstood.  I thought we were discoving that all chips which
have been thoroughly investigated end up needing the workaround.

I guess it's only a specific family of these chips which seem to all
have the problem?
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