Subject: Re: [PATCH] rndis_host: Poll status channel before control channel

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 15 May 2010 14:37:15 +0100

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 23:42 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
> 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 <[email-masked]>
> > which is reported to be needed for use with some Windows Mobile devices
> > and which is currently applied by Mandriva.
> > 
> > Reported-by: Mark Glassberg <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
> > Tested-by: Mark Glassberg <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> > 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.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.