On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 04:00:28PM +0200, Christian Heusel wrote:

This reverts commit 67d1a8956d2d62fe6b4c13ebabb57806098511d8. Since this commit has been proven to be problematic for the setup of USB-tethered ethernet connections and the related breakage is very noticeable for users it should be reverted until a fixed version of the change can be rolled out.

Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/e0df2d85-1296-4317-b717-bd757e3ab928@heusel.eu/ Link: https://chaos.social/@gromit/114377862699921553 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220002 Link: https://bugs.gentoo.org/953555 Link: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=304892 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Acked-by: Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel christian@heusel.eu

Thanks for sending this out, it really needs a different solution.

Reviewed-by: Lubomir Rintel lkundrak@v3.sk

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drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c | 16 ++-------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c index bb0bf1415872745aea177ce0ba7d6eb578cb4a47..7b3739b29c8f72b7b108c5f4ae11fdfcf243237d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/rndis_host.c @@ -630,16 +630,6 @@ static const struct driver_info zte_rndis_info = { .tx_fixup = rndis_tx_fixup, }; -static const struct driver_info wwan_rndis_info = {

• .description = "Mobile Broadband RNDIS device",
• .flags = FLAG_WWAN | FLAG_POINTTOPOINT | FLAG_FRAMING_RN | FLAG_NO_SETINT,
• .bind = rndis_bind,
• .unbind = rndis_unbind,
• .status = rndis_status,
• .rx_fixup = rndis_rx_fixup,
• .tx_fixup = rndis_tx_fixup,

-};

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ static const struct usb_device_id products [] = { @@ -676,11 +666,9 @@ static const struct usb_device_id products [] = { USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_WIRELESS_CONTROLLER, 1, 3), .driver_info = (unsigned long) &rndis_info, }, {

• /* Mobile Broadband Modem, seen in Novatel Verizon USB730L and

• * Telit FN990A (RNDIS)
  

• */
  

• /* Novatel Verizon USB730L */ USB_INTERFACE_INFO(USB_CLASS_MISC, 4, 1),

• .driver_info = (unsigned long)&wwan_rndis_info,

• .driver_info = (unsigned long) &rndis_info,

}, { }, // END };

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base-commit: 9c32cda43eb78f78c73aee4aa344b777714e259b change-id: 20250424-usb-tethering-fix-398688b32dad

Best regards,

Christian Heusel christian@heusel.eu