linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] usb/net/asix_devices: Add USBNET HG20F9 ethernet dongle

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Message-Id: <20130225.234529.1601978289377551611.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 23:45:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:	gdt@....id.au, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb/net/asix_devices: Add USBNET HG20F9 ethernet dongle

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:23:43 -0800

> On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:47:12PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote:
>> This USB ethernet adapter was purchased in anodyne packaging
>> marked "USB2.0 to LAN" 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
>> <https://github.com/paigeadele/HG20F9>.
>> This patch uses her discovery to update the restructured Asix
>> driver in the current kernel.
>> 
>> The spread of viruses is often accompanied by rumours. It is
>> rumoured that the HG20F9 has extensions to to provide gigabit
>> ethernet. This patch does not chase that chimera.
>> 
>> 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 <gdt@....id.au>
> 
> That is the best "add a new device id" changelog entry I have _ever_
> seen.  Wonderful job:
> 
> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

Was this patch really submitted properly to netdev?  I can't
find it in patchwork at all.
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