From: Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:03:11 -0800
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote: >> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> 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 <g...@gdt.id.au> >> > >> > That is the best "add a new device id" changelog entry I have _ever_ >> > seen. Wonderful job: >> > >> > Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> >> >> Was this patch really submitted properly to netdev? I can't >> find it in patchwork at all. > > It was Cc: net...@vger.kernel.org with Message-ID: > <1361852232.23197.4.ca...@andromache.adelaide.aarnet.edu.au> so it > should have gone through there somehow. Nope: http://marc.info/?t=136185267100001&r=1&w=2 It didn't make it to any of the lists, that's why you are the only person who saw the original patch. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
