On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 03:27:28PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > El 02/09/20 a las 14:05, Greg KH escribió: > > On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote: > > > El 30/07/20 a las 16:07, Oliver Neukum escribió: > > > > Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2020, 15:53 +0200 schrieb Santiago Ruano > > > > Rincón: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > Miguel Rodríguez sent this set of patches two years ago to fix the lack > > > > > of multicast processing on CDC NCM driver: > > > > > > > > > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170611.html > > > > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170603.html > > > > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170567.html > > > > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170568.html > > > > > > > > > > I've using a DKMS version of them, available in > > > > > https://github.com/stbuehler/fixed-cdc-ether-ncm/tree/wip/patches > > > > > since more than a year ago, and they are working fine with my Dell D6000 > > > > > docking station. IPv6 connectivity is broken without them. > > > > > > > > > > Is there any chance to consider those patches (or what would be needed > > > > > to make it happen)? > > > > > It would be great to have them upstream! > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > they have been merged on Wednesday. > > > … > > > > > > Great, thanks! > > > > > > It would be possible to apply/backport Miguel's patches (along with > > > 5fd99b5d9950d6300467ded18ff4e44af0b4ae55) to stable versions please? > > > > I don't see that git commit id in Linus's tree, are you sure it is > > correct? > > I should had mention it is found in linux-next, sorry. Please see > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=969365#10 Ah, nothing I can do with patches that are not yet in Linus's tree. > > > FWIW, in the context of Debian, I'm personally interested in 4.19.y. > > > > What specific list of commits are you wanting to see backported? > > This: > > 37a2ebdd9e597ae1a0270ac747883ea8f6f767b6 > e10dcb1b6ba714243ad5a35a11b91cc14103a9a9 > e506addeff844237d60545ef4f6141de21471caf > 0226009ce0f6089f9b31211f7a2703cf9a327a01 These do not look like bugfixes, but a new feature being added for this driver. So why not just use a newer kernel version for this feature? thanks, greg k-h
