From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:37:15 +0100

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> On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:42 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>> Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:08:28 +0100
>> 
>> > Some RNDIS devices don't respond on the control channel until polled
>> > on the status channel.  In particular, this was reported to be the
>> > case for the 2Wire HomePortal 1000SW.
>> > 
>> > This is roughly based on a patch by John Carr <john.carr@unrouted.co.uk>
>> > which is reported to be needed for use with some Windows Mobile devices
>> > and which is currently applied by Mandriva.
>> > 
>> > Reported-by: Mark Glassberg <vzeeaxwl@myfairpoint.net>
>> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
>> > Tested-by: Mark Glassberg <vzeeaxwl@myfairpoint.net>
>> > ---
>> > Note that this change hasn't yet been tested with any other RNDIS
>> > devices.  John, can you confirm whether this also handles the WinMob
>> > devices?
>> 
>> Still waiting for this to get tested.  Is there really nobody in the
>> world with RNDIS devices who can test this patch?  If so, maybe that's
>> a good reason to not apply it :-))))
> 
> This has been in Debian unstable since 1 May and I haven't seen any
> fall-out yet.  However I acknowledge that absence of evidence is not
> evidence of absence.

I think I'll toss it into net-next-2.6 and we'll see if any monsters
come out of that.

Thanks.
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