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

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/14/2014 06:27 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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
>

Micha - if that patch works in 3.13 then please remember to submit it to
stable.

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