netdev - Re: Fwd: [PATCH] net:usb:cdc_ncm: fix that tag Huawei devices as wwan

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Message-ID: <1434359338.1681.4.camel@suse.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:08:58 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings@...ethink.co.uk>,
	USB list <linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Fwd: [PATCH] net:usb:cdc_ncm: fix that tag Huawei devices as
 wwan

On Sun, 2015-06-14 at 13:51 -1000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Oliver is marked as the maintainer of the USB CDC code, but

I do CDC ACM, CDC WDM and CDC Ether, but not CDC NCM (it is a
very different beast)

> others have touched it more recently. So I'm just wildly adding people
> to the cc to comment on this patch and maybe apply it.
> Oliver/David/Ben/Bjørn?

That said this patch looks very broad. There are devices this fits
which are legitimately WWAN. I would ask Huawei to come up
with a solution of finer granularity.

	HTH
		Oliver



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