Re: [PATCH net-next] cdc_ether: Improve ZTE MF823/831/910 handling

[Andrey Melnikov]

> On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:30 AM, Lars Melin <larsm17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On 2016-07-19 13:40, Kristian Evensen wrote:
> >
> >> I guess I can match on the VID/PID in usbnet, but won't it be cleaner
> >> to add a new bind() function (in cdc_ether) which matches the two PIDs
> >> and leave usbnet as is? Or am I misunderstanding how to add this
> >> functionality to usbnet?
> >>
> >
> > Matching on the usb id is probably not a great idea, there is more id's
> > than the two you have found and there is also more than two non-unique mac
> > addresses.
> >
> > Example:
> >
> > 0200FFAAAAAA  19d2:1589/1592/1595
> > 020CE70B0102  19d2:1040/1048/1405
> >
> > You can easily find them by googling them, without colon separators you
> > will find them in verbose lsusb listings, with colons you will find them in
> > dmesg pastings.
> >
> > I would probably have found more dupes if users had refrained from using the
> > stupid usbdevices cmd which removes almost all interesting info from device
> > listings in internet foras.

> Thanks for letting me know. It seems that the static MAC behaviour is
> the default behaviour of ZTE-devices that use cdc_ether. Unless anyone
> objects, I will make the following changes for v2:

> * Create a ZTE-specific bind method in cdc_ether that checks for a
> random MAC and generates a new MAC if found.
> * Use the ZTE-specific bind + rx fixup for all ZTE cdc_ether devices
> by default, and add exceptions if we find any devices not displaying
> this behaviour. I see there are already five ZTE devices with separate
> entries in the products-array in cdc_ether.

This is not only ZTE specific bug. Huawei (balong based) modems use
predefined MAC 0a:5b:8f:27:9a:64.
I think - better detect this devices by MAC address, not by VID/PID.