netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] cdc_mbim workarounds for firmware bugs

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Date:	Sat, 02 Nov 2013 01:30:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bjorn@...k.no
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, alexey.orishko@...il.com,
	gsuarez@...thmicro.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] cdc_mbim workarounds for firmware bugs

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2013 15:56:09 +0100

> The first patch is an attempt to work around a bug which prevents
> some devices from working with IPv6. I guess handling ND in a driver
> can be considered controversial, but it was the best alternative I
> came up with.
> 
> The second is the "final solution" to the well known ZLP bug, which
> as we feared is present in a number of devices using different
> vendor IDs. Enabling this is definitely controversial, but I do not
> see any other possible solution.  The blacklist has become
> unmanagable, and I am pretty sure it is very incomplete due to
> under-reporting.  Devices known to work without ZLPs can be added
> to the whitelist.

This seems fine, both applied, thanks.
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