netdev - Re: [PATCH] hso: add Vendor/Product ID's for new devices

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Date:	Wed, 01 Apr 2009 01:07:10 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt
Cc:	j.dumon@...ion.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hso: add Vendor/Product ID's for new devices

From: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@...tonika.lt>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:33:59 +0300

> Jan Dumon wrote:
> > @@ -462,9 +462,16 @@ static const struct usb_device_id hso_ids[] = {
> >  	{USB_DEVICE(0x0af0, 0x7701)},
> >  	{USB_DEVICE(0x0af0, 0x7801)},
> >  	{USB_DEVICE(0x0af0, 0x7901)},
> > -	{USB_DEVICE(0x0af0, 0x7361)},
> > -	{USB_DEVICE(0x0af0, 0xd057)},
> 
> Please add comment in description why you are removing these IDs.

This isn't the first time they've been asked to do this.

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] hso: add new device id's
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To: F.Aben@...ion.com
Cc: gregkh@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:33:00 -0800 (PST)
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From: "Filip Aben" <F.Aben@...ion.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 01:26:14 +0100

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
> > Sent: maandag 2 februari 2009 23:03
> > To: Filip Aben
> > Cc: gregkh@...e.de; netdev@...r.kernel.org; linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH] hso: add new device id's
> > 
> > Why won't 0xaf0/0xd051 ever be used?
> > 
> > You should explain such things in your commit message,
> > that way I don't have to ask.
> 
> That ID was used in an internal engineering version of a device and 
> will never see commercial light.
> Even if this ID will be 'recycled' in the future, which is very
> unlikely, 
> I don't know what kind of device will be behind it. Therefore it's safer
> to remove it.

Great, please add that information to the commit message
and resend your patch.

Thanks.
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