netdev - Re: [PATCH] qmi_wwan/cdc_ether: add device IDs for Dell 5804 (Novatel E371) WWAN card

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Date:	Wed, 08 May 2013 12:19:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dagofthedofg@...il.com
Cc:	bjorn@...k.no, dcbw@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qmi_wwan/cdc_ether: add device IDs for Dell 5804
 (Novatel E371) WWAN card

From: dag dg <dagofthedofg@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 8 May 2013 14:11:48 -0500

> Just a side note on this. By default for this device, modprobe won't
> load and assign the option driver. However, if cdc_ether is
> blacklisted and you try to load option onto the device, it will try to
> load the option driver onto where cdc_ether was being used, which will
> cause the system to lock up. I'm not sure what needs to be done to
> force qmi_wwan to take over cdc_ether without option grabbing these
> IDs...

I'm sure that Bjørn can answer this question.
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