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Re: [PATCH] wireless: rt2x00: rt{2500,73}usb.c put back duplicate id

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On 04/14/2012 11:36 PM, Larry Finger wrote:

> On 04/14/2012 04:00 PM, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote:
>> put back 0x050d,0x7050 to rt73usb, same usb_id for two chips:
>>
>> K7SF5D7050A ver 2xxx is rt2500
>> K7SF5D7050B ver 3xxx is rt73
>>
>> <http://en-us-support.belkin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/297/kw/K7SF5D7050>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez<xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx>

> I did a quick look at the rt2500 driver and did not see any code
> that detects what version chip is being read. If it is possible
> to determine if it is ver 2xxx and not 3xxx, then the probe
> routine should do that and return an error if the wrong driver
> is being loaded. A similar situation arises in the Realtek PCI
> devices. In that case, it is a PCI revision that allows a driver
> to reject the wrong hardware.

This is just a patch to return to the original situation.
(0x050d, 0x7050) was deleted by commit 08b8099c128d601fd675b212ef8b10397706b633
[1], and I was wrong.

[1] <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=08b8099c128d601fd675b212ef8b10397706b633>
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