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

[Kristian Evensen]

Hi Lars,

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.

-Kristian