This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled usb: plusb: Add support for PL-27A1 to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-plusb-add-support-for-pl-27a1.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:58:04 CEST 2017 From: Roman Spychała <roed@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:04:10 +0200 Subject: usb: plusb: Add support for PL-27A1 From: Roman Spychała <roed@xxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6f2aee0c0de65013333bbc26fe50c9c7b09a37f7 ] This patch adds support for the PL-27A1 by adding the appropriate USB ID's. This chip is used in the goobay Active USB 3.0 Data Link and Unitek Y-3501 cables. Signed-off-by: Roman Spychała <roed@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/usb/Kconfig | 2 +- drivers/net/usb/plusb.c | 15 +++++++++++++-- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig +++ b/drivers/net/usb/Kconfig @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ config USB_NET_NET1080 optionally with LEDs that indicate traffic config USB_NET_PLUSB - tristate "Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1 based cables" + tristate "Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1/27A1 based cables" # if the handshake/init/reset problems, from original 'plusb', # are ever resolved ... then remove "experimental" depends on USB_USBNET --- a/drivers/net/usb/plusb.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/plusb.c @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int pl_reset(struct usbnet *dev) } static const struct driver_info prolific_info = { - .description = "Prolific PL-2301/PL-2302/PL-25A1", + .description = "Prolific PL-2301/PL-2302/PL-25A1/PL-27A1", .flags = FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT, /* some PL-2302 versions seem to fail usb_set_interface() */ .reset = pl_reset, @@ -139,6 +139,17 @@ static const struct usb_device_id produc * Host-to-Host Cable */ .driver_info = (unsigned long) &prolific_info, + +}, + +/* super speed cables */ +{ + USB_DEVICE(0x067b, 0x27a1), /* PL-27A1, no eeprom + * also: goobay Active USB 3.0 + * Data Link, + * Unitek Y-3501 + */ + .driver_info = (unsigned long) &prolific_info, }, { }, // END @@ -158,5 +169,5 @@ static struct usb_driver plusb_driver = module_usb_driver(plusb_driver); MODULE_AUTHOR("David Brownell"); -MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1 USB Host to Host Link Driver"); +MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1/27A1 USB Host to Host Link Driver"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from roed@xxxxxxx are queue-3.18/usb-plusb-add-support-for-pl-27a1.patch