Re: [PATCH v2] net/usb: Ethernet quirks for the LG-VL600 4G modem

From: David Miller
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 05:36:51 EST


From: Andrzej Zaborowski <andrew.zaborowski@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:56:33 +0200

> This adds a driver for the CDC Ethernet part of this modem. The
> device's ID is blacklisted in cdc_ether.c and is white-listed in
> this new driver because of the quirks needed to make it useful.
> The modem's firmware exposes a CDC ACM port for modem control and a
> CDC Ethernet port for network data. The descriptors look fine but
> both ports actually are some sort of multiplexers requiring non-
> standard headers added/removed from every packet or they get
> ignored. All information is based on a usb traffic log from a
> Windows machine.
>
> On the Verizon 4G network I've seen speeds up to 1.1MB/s so far with
> this driver, a speed-o-meter site reports 16.2Mbps/10.5Mbps.
> Userspace scripts are required to talk to the CDC ACM port.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrzej Zaborowski <balrogg@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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