Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/usb: Add Samsung Kalmia driver for Samsung GT-B3730

From: Marius Kotsbak <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 14:36:32 +0200

On 12. juni 2011 01:29, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Miller <davem-fT/PcQaiUtIeIZ0/[email-masked]>
> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 16:27:11 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> From: "Marius B. Kotsbak" <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 23:55:18 +0200
>>
>>> Introducing driver for the network port of Samsung Kalmia based USB LTE modems.
>>> It has also an ACM interface that previous patches associates with the "option"
>>> module. To access those interfaces, the modem must first be switched from modem
>>> mode using a tool like usb_modeswitch.
>>>
>>> As the proprietary protocol has been discovered by watching the MS Windows driver
>>> behavior, there might be errors in the protocol handling, but stable and fast
>>> connection has been established for hours with Norwegian operator NetCom that
>>> distributes this modem with their LTE/4G subscription.
>>>
>>> More and updated information about how to use this driver is available here:
>>>
>>> http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/bb/viewtopic.php?t=465
>>> https://github.com/mkotsbak/Samsung-GT-B3730-linux-driver
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Marius B. Kotsbak <[email-masked]>
>> Applied, thanks.
> Actually, reverted.
>
> There's a typo in your Makefile patch, and because of this it
> won't even build the new driver.

Oh sorry, I did make on the actual kalmia.ko to avoid building all
modules, so I did not notice. Sending a fixed patch. Ben, thanks for
pointing out.

> People are so damn anxious to get this backported into stable
> and various distributions,

Japp, people keeps asking for a version that compiles with kernel 2.6.32
for the Ubuntu LTS...
>  yet this patch wasn't even tested
> properly.

We were compiling it out of the kernel tree until now.

--
Marius

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