On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote: > 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. It was Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with Message-ID: <1361852232.23197.4.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> so it should have gone through there somehow. 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
