This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
usbnet: add support for some Huawei modems with cdc-ether ports
to the 2.6.38-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:
usbnet-add-support-for-some-huawei-modems-with-cdc-ether-ports.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b3c914aa84f4e4bbb3efc8f41c359d96e5e932d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:54:28 +0000
Subject: usbnet: add support for some Huawei modems with cdc-ether ports
From: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
commit b3c914aa84f4e4bbb3efc8f41c359d96e5e932d2 upstream.
Some newer Huawei devices (T-Mobile Rocket, others) have cdc-ether
compatible ports, so recognize and expose them.
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ether.c
@@ -458,7 +458,7 @@ static const struct driver_info cdc_info
.manage_power = cdc_manage_power,
};
-static const struct driver_info mbm_info = {
+static const struct driver_info wwan_info = {
.description = "Mobile Broadband Network Device",
.flags = FLAG_WWAN,
.bind = cdc_bind,
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ static const struct driver_info mbm_info
/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+#define HUAWEI_VENDOR_ID 0x12D1
static const struct usb_device_id products [] = {
/*
@@ -578,8 +579,17 @@ static const struct usb_device_id produc
}, {
USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_COMM, USB_CDC_SUBCLASS_MDLM,
USB_CDC_PROTO_NONE),
- .driver_info = (unsigned long)&mbm_info,
+ .driver_info = (unsigned long)&wwan_info,
+}, {
+ /* Various Huawei modems with a network port like the UMG1831 */
+ .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_VENDOR
+ | USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO,
+ .idVendor = HUAWEI_VENDOR_ID,
+ .bInterfaceClass = USB_CLASS_COMM,
+ .bInterfaceSubClass = USB_CDC_SUBCLASS_ETHERNET,
+ .bInterfaceProtocol = 255,
+ .driver_info = (unsigned long)&wwan_info,
},
{ }, // END
};
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/usbnet-add-support-for-some-huawei-modems-with-cdc-ether-ports.patch
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