On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 11:45:29PM -0500, David Miller wrote:

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <redacted>
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:23:43 -0800

quoted

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 02:47:12PM +1030, Glen Turner wrote:

quoted

This USB ethernet adapter was purchased in anodyne packaging
marked "USB2.0 to LAN" from the computer store adjacent to
linux.conf.au 2013 in Canberra (Australia). A web search
shows other recent purchasers in Lancaster (UK) and Seattle
(USA). Just like an emergent virus, our age of e-commerce and
airmail allows underdocumented hardware to spread around the
world instantly using the vector of ridiculously low prices.

Paige Thompson, infected via eBay, discovered that the HG20F9
is a copy of the Asix 88772B; many viruses copy the RNA of
other viruses. See Paige's work at
<https://github.com/paigeadele/HG20F9>.
This patch uses her discovery to update the restructured Asix
driver in the current kernel.

The spread of viruses is often accompanied by rumours. It is
rumoured that the HG20F9 has extensions to to provide gigabit
ethernet. This patch does not chase that chimera.

Just as some viruses inhabit seemingly-healthy cells, the
HG20F9 uses the Vendor ID 0x066b assigned to Linksys Inc.
For the present there is no clash of Product ID 0x20f9.

Signed-off-by: Glen Turner <redacted>

That is the best "add a new device id" changelog entry I have _ever_
seen.  Wonderful job:

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <redacted>

Was this patch really submitted properly to netdev?  I can't
find it in patchwork at all.

It was Cc: netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org with Message-ID:
[off-list ref] so it
should have gone through there somehow.

thanks,

greg k-h
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