Re: Please upgrade the driver for Sierra Wireless USB-to-WWAN modems from the manufacturer's website

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On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:51 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Autif Khan wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2012-02-27 at 16:28 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
>> >> On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:21:04AM +1100, Tom Cassidy wrote:
>> >> > I have a Sierra Wireless 320U USB-to-WWAN modem that does not work with the
>> >> > current sierra and sierra_net drivers included in the Linux kernel.  The
>> >> > manufacturer has an updated driver available from their website at
>> >> > http://mycusthelp.net/SIERRAWIRELESS/_cs/AnswerDetail.aspx?aid=44
>> >> >
>> >> > My modem device works after installing this updated driver.  I tested using the
>> >> > current Ubuntu-precise development release with the mainline kernel release
>> >> > 3.3.0-030300rc5-generic from
>> >> > http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v3.3-rc5-precise/
>> >> >
>> >> > The driver versions in linux-3.3-rc5 are:
>> >> > sierra: v.1.7.16
>> >> > sierra_net: v.2.0
>> >> >
>> >> > The driver versions for the updated drivers from Sierra Wireless are:
>> >> > sierra: v.1.7.40
>> >> > sierra_net: v.3.2
>> >> >
>> >> > The direct link to the updated driver is at
>> >> > http://www.sierrawireless.com/resources/support/drivers/linux/v3.2_1740_kernel-3.0.directIP.tar
>> >>
>> >> Care to ask the sierra wireless developers to send us patches to achive
>> >> this?  I can't grab a tarball from a web site and just blindly apply it
>> >> to the kernel tree, that might not work.
>> >
>> > Looks like a few more supported USB IDs, some autopm fixes, and some
>> > IPv6 fixes in sierra_net.  Not too complicated a merge for Sierra to do,
>> > I think.
>> >
>> > Dan
>>
>> I have submitted patches that integrates these drivers.
>>
>> The driver builds, I have not tested with a device though.
>>
>> Since this is my first non-trivial patch - please let me know if I
>> have made some mistake.
>
> You forgot to copy the original authors of the patch, please do so.
>
> greg k-h

Newbie question - should I

1) submit the patch just to the author (klloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)

OR

2) resubmit the patch to everyone - Greg, Rusty, Johan, Alan, Mauro,
linux-usb, linux-kernel and klloyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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