From: Glen Turner <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:02:36 +1030
> This USB ethernet adapter was purchased in anodyne packaging > 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. > > 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 <[email protected]> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
