On Sun, Feb 10, 2008 at 10:31 AM, Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2008 11:21:57 Ivo van Doorn wrote:
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > John, please send this patch to the 2.6.24/2.6.25 stable trees.
> > It is already present in the wireless-2.6 tree queued for 2.6.26.
> >
> > drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c | 2 +-
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
> > index cba7f57..c4a6ab4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2500usb.c
> > @@ -1871,11 +1871,11 @@ static struct usb_device_id rt2500usb_device_table[] = {
> > /* Hercules */
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x06f8, 0xe000), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > /* Melco */
> > + { USB_DEVICE(0x0411, 0x005e), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0411, 0x0066), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0411, 0x0067), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0411, 0x008b), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0411, 0x0097), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > -
> > /* MSI */
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0db0, 0x6861), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
> > { USB_DEVICE(0x0db0, 0x6865), USB_DEVICE_DATA(&rt2500usb_ops) },
>
> I'm unsure on how this is an actual _fix_ that we need in a stable kernel.
> We always handled adding IDs as features.
Please forgive me for stepping in this apparently already closed discussion.
Why is supporting a new USB ID considered a feature, when the users
are probably ok with it (it works) and no changes are added to the
code?
Luis Correia
rt2x00 project admin
>
> --
> Greetings Michael.
>
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