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Patch "usb: plusb: Add support for PL-27A1" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

usb: plusb: Add support for PL-27A1

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:

     usb-plusb-add-support-for-pl-27a1.patch

and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

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From foo@baz Thu Oct 5 10:49:14 CEST 2017

From: Roman Spychała <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 12:04:10 +0200
Subject: usb: plusb: Add support for PL-27A1

From: Roman Spychała <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 6f2aee0c0de65013333bbc26fe50c9c7b09a37f7 ]

This patch adds support for the PL-27A1 by adding the appropriate USB ID's. This chip is used in the goobay Active USB 3.0 Data Link and Unitek Y-3501 cables.

Signed-off-by Roman Spychała <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/net/usb/Kconfig |    2 +-
 drivers/net/usb/plusb.c |   15 +++++++++++++--
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
drivers/net/usb/Kconfig +1 -1
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ config USB_NET_NET1080
 	  optionally with LEDs that indicate traffic
 
 config USB_NET_PLUSB
-	tristate "Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1 based cables"
+	tristate "Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1/27A1 based cables"
 	# if the handshake/init/reset problems, from original 'plusb',
 	# are ever resolved ... then remove "experimental"
 	depends on USB_USBNET
drivers/net/usb/plusb.c +13 -2
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static int pl_reset(struct usbnet *dev)
 }
 
 static const struct driver_info	prolific_info = {
-	.description =	"Prolific PL-2301/PL-2302/PL-25A1",
+	.description =	"Prolific PL-2301/PL-2302/PL-25A1/PL-27A1",
 	.flags =	FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_NO_SETINT,
 		/* some PL-2302 versions seem to fail usb_set_interface() */
 	.reset =	pl_reset,

@@ -139,6 +139,17 @@ static const struct usb_device_id	produc
 					 * Host-to-Host Cable
 					 */
 	.driver_info =  (unsigned long) &prolific_info,
+
+},
+
+/* super speed cables */
+{
+	USB_DEVICE(0x067b, 0x27a1),     /* PL-27A1, no eeprom
+					 * also: goobay Active USB 3.0
+					 * Data Link,
+					 * Unitek Y-3501
+					 */
+	.driver_info =  (unsigned long) &prolific_info,
 },
 
 	{ },		// END

@@ -158,5 +169,5 @@ static struct usb_driver plusb_driver =
 module_usb_driver(plusb_driver);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("David Brownell");
-MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1 USB Host to Host Link Driver");
+MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Prolific PL-2301/2302/25A1/27A1 USB Host to Host Link Driver");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/usb-plusb-add-support-for-pl-27a1.patch