linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers

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Date:   Thu, 24 Nov 2022 07:58:54 +0700
From:   Lars Melin <larsm17@...il.com>
To:     Nicolas Cavallari <nicolas.cavallari@...en-communications.fr>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Kalle Valo <kvalo@...nel.org>,
        Oleksij Rempel <linux@...pel-privat.de>,
        Maciej Żenczykowski <maze@...gle.com>,
        Neil Armstrong <neil.armstrong@...aro.org>,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...nel.org>,
        Andrzej Pietrasiewicz <andrzejtp2010@...il.com>,
        Jacopo Mondi <jacopo@...ndi.org>,
        Łukasz Stelmach <l.stelmach@...sung.com>,
        Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>,
        linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
        Ilja Van Sprundel <ivansprundel@...ctive.com>,
        Joseph Tartaro <joseph.tartaro@...ctive.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] USB: disable all RNDIS protocol drivers

On 11/23/2022 22:40, Nicolas Cavallari wrote:
> There are also probably cellular dongles that uses rndis by default.

Yes, there is a whole bunch of them and new ones are still coming out.
Some USB dongle mfgr prefer to implement RNDIS instead of MBIM because 
the same dongle can then be used for both old and new WIN versions.
I do agree that the RNDIS protocol is crap but removing RNDIS_HOST will 
be a regression for many linux users.

/Lars