From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:23:43 -0800 > 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> Was this patch really submitted properly to netdev? I can't find it in patchwork at all. -- 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
