Cherry-pick upstream patch to add support for ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN in AX88179 Driver

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Fri Mar 14 12:27:00 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 03:05:41PM +0100, Micha Moskovic wrote:
> Dear Kernel Team,
> 
> could you have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1291890 regarding the addition of the ThinkPad OneLink GigaLAN USB ID to the AX88179 driver ? 
> This involves a (very small) patch that was added recently to the upstream Linux kernel and enables the use of the Gigabit ethernet adapter contained in the Thinkpad OneLink Dock.
> This would be extremely useful to many users of recent ThinkPad laptops that are compatible with this dock.

I have pushed test kernels to the bug with this applied.  Could you test
those and report back on the bug please.

-apw




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