On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:47:12PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote: > This USB ethernet adapter was purchased in anodyne packaging > marked "USB2.0 to LAN" from the computer store adjacent to > linux.conf.au 2013 in Canberra (Australia). A web search > shows other recent purchasers in Lancaster (UK) and Seattle > (USA). Just like an emergent virus, our age of e-commerce and > airmail allows underdocumented hardware to spread around the > world instantly using the vector of ridiculously low prices. > > Paige Thompson, infected via eBay, discovered that the HG20F9 > is a copy of the Asix 88772B; many viruses copy the RNA of > other viruses. See Paige's work at > <https://github.com/paigeadele/HG20F9>. > This patch uses her discovery to update the restructured Asix > driver in the current kernel. > > The spread of viruses is often accompanied by rumours. It is > rumoured that the HG20F9 has extensions to to provide gigabit > ethernet. This patch does not chase that chimera. > > Just as some viruses inhabit seemingly-healthy cells, the > HG20F9 uses the Vendor ID 0x066b assigned to Linksys Inc. > For the present there is no clash of Product ID 0x20f9. > > Signed-off-by: Glen Turner <gdt@xxxxxxxxx> That is the best "add a new device id" changelog entry I have _ever_ seen. Wonderful job: Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
