netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: qmi_wwan: ignore bogus CDC Union descriptors

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 16:11:47 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bjorn@...k.no
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Topi.Kanerva@...ia.fi,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: qmi_wwan: ignore bogus CDC Union
 descriptors

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 12:44:04 +0100

> The CDC descriptors found on these vendor specific functions should
> not be considered authoritative.  They seem to be ignored by drivers
> for other systems, and the quality is therefore low.
> 
> One device (1e0e:9001) has been reported to have such a bogus union
> descriptor on the QMI function, making it fail probing even if the
> device id was dynamically added.  The report was not complete enough
> to allow adding a device entry for this modem. But this should at
> least fix the dynamic id probing problem.
> 
> Reported-by: Kanerva Topi <Topi.Kanerva@...ia.fi>
> Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>

Applied, thanks!
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