Re: [PATCHv2] usb/net/asix_devices: Add USBNET HG20F9 ethernetdongle

[David Miller]

From: Glen Turner <gdt@xxxxxxxxx>
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 <gdt@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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