Re: Fwd: 3 more broken Zaurii - SL-5600, A300, C700

From: Bagas Sanjaya
Date: Wed Jul 05 2023 - 23:08:49 EST


On 7/5/23 09:09, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I notice a regression report on Bugzilla [1]. Quoting from it:
>
>> The following patch broke support of 3 more Zaurus models: SL-5600, A300 and C700
>>
>> [16adf5d07987d93675945f3cecf0e33706566005] usbnet: Remove over-broad module alias from zaurus
>>
>> dmesg and lsusb output attached.
>
> Because the description above was vague, I asked the clarification.
> The reporter replied:
>
>> The problem is that networking to SL-5600 / A300 / C700 devices does not
>> work. I cannot ping the devices.
>>
>> The error is occurring in zaurus.c. dmesg is missing the following line:
>>
>> zaurus 2-2:1.0 usb0: register 'zaurus' at usb-0000:00:1d.0-2,
>> pseudo-MDLM (BLAN) device, 2a:01:39:93:bc:1a
>>
>> A patch was created in 2022 to fix the same problem with the SL-6000:
>>
>> USB: zaurus: support another broken Zaurus -
>> [6605cc67ca18b9d583eb96e18a20f5f4e726103c]
>>
>> Could you please create another patch for the 3 devices: SL-5600 / A300
>> / C700?
>
> See Bugzilla for the full thread and attached dmesg and lsusb.
>
> Dave: The reporter asked to write the quirk for affected devices.
> Would you like to create it?
>

Thorsten: Email to the culprit author (Dave) bounced. What can
I do in this case? Should I start adding get_maintainer.pl output?

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