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

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Message-ID: <20130226050311.GB21390@kroah.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:03:11 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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

On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> 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.

It was Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org with Message-ID:
<1361852232.23197.4.camel@...romache.adelaide.aarnet.edu.au> so it
should have gone through there somehow.

thanks,

greg k-h
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