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

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Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:28:56 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	gdt@....id.au
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, 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: Glen Turner <gdt@....id.au>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 14:47:12 +1030

> 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>

Applied, thanks Glen.
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