On Thu, Aug 07, 2014 at 04:00:12PM +0200, Johan Hovold wrote: > These patches move the ZTE PIDs that were originally handled by the > option driver back to that driver, remove two PIDs from zte_ev that were > already claimed by other drivers, and finally removes the zte_ev driver > completely (and moves the sole remaining PID over to option). > > The zte_ev driver is based on code (once) distributed by ZTE that still > appears to originally have been reverse-engineered and bolted onto the > generic driver. A closer inspections of the control requests it was > sending reveals that they were not doing anything not already handled > (better) by option (well, except for some apparently redundant > SET/GET_LINE_CODING). > > There have also been reports about disconnect and reconnect issues with > zte_ev, something which has already led to one PID already having been > moved back. Lei Liu of ZTE has asked for further PIDs to be moved after > reporting issues with the driver. > > I intend to queue up the first three, which are also marked for stable, > for v3.17-rc2, while the final removal of the driver is held back to > v3.18. That way there's plenty of time to deal with any issues that, > however unlikely, may arise. > > Comments? If all devices work properly without this driver, I have no objection to removing it from the kernel. So this series looks good to me, thanks. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
