Lenovo x201 WWAN module in Lucid kernel?

[Tim Gardner]

On 05/21/2010 10:11 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 09:18:26AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
>
>> Torsten - This exact driver version already exists in Lucid:
>> drivers/usb/serial/option.c. It appears to have support for a Qualcomm
>> family of devices, but I'm not  sure if that includes the Gobi chipset.
>> It might also be a simple matter of firmware. Can you get your customer
>> the correct copy of firmware and have them place it in /lib/firmware ?
>> It may just work.
>
> No, the gobi chipsets require the qcserial driver. It's been broken
> upstream since 2.6.32, hence the patches.
>

Torsten - I took a closer look at Matthew's patch set. While I've no 
doubt that it works, its also quite invasive. In my opinion this patch 
will not satisfy SRU criteria.

rtg
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