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Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:21:20 -0800 From: Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> To: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: cdc_ether.c: Add SE J105i to device whitelist On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 09:50 +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com> writes: > > > Here's the difference: > > > > F3507g: requires AT command setup before cdc-ether port is usable > > SE j105i: does not require AT command setup before port is usable > > > > Same on my TM-506; you can simply run DHCP on the 'usb0' port and it > > works, because the phone is pretending to be a usb-ethernet device and > > transparently bridge between the ethernet and the cellular network. > > That's simply not the case with the F3507g or any other WWAN card. > > > > Phones are fundamentally different than WWAN cards and shouldn't be > > treated like one, at least at this time. > > OK, then I misunderstood the request. I thought that this phone behaved > like a WWAN card since it presumably advertised the same CDC "Mobile > Direct Line" class as the Ericsson WWAN cards, maybe even with the same > GUID in the MDLM header? Interesting. But I'd be very, very skeptical if the phone really acted just like an MBM card. My TM-506 has *some* of the same commands that the F3507g and the F3607gw do but certainly not all of them. > If it really behaves like you describe (which is what the other Sony > Ericsson phones I've seen does too), then I don't understand why it > doesn't just advertise a CDC Ethernet class device. That's what the > other phones do, and as you of course know, the reason why we don't have > a gazillion phone VID/PID entries in cdc_ether.c.. Good question; though I've seen enough hardware that I'll simply just assume they did it differently just because they could, not for any specific reason. Don't over-estimate the intelligence of firmware people, they are just as human as the rest of us :) Dan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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