Bug#965074: Patches to make multicast proccesing on CDC NCM drivers

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Sep 02, 2020 at 01:47:18PM +0200, Santiago Ruano Rincón wrote:
> El 30/07/20 a las 16:07, Oliver Neukum escribió:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 30.07.2020, 15:53 +0200 schrieb Santiago Ruano
> > Rincón:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Miguel Rodríguez sent this set of patches two years ago to fix the lack
> > > of multicast processing on CDC NCM driver:
> > > 
> > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170611.html
> > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170603.html
> > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170567.html
> > > https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg170568.html
> > > 
> > > I've using a DKMS version of them, available in
> > > https://github.com/stbuehler/fixed-cdc-ether-ncm/tree/wip/patches
> > > since more than a year ago, and they are working fine with my Dell D6000
> > > docking station. IPv6 connectivity is broken without them.
> > > 
> > > Is there any chance to consider those patches (or what would be needed
> > > to make it happen)?
> > > It would be great to have them upstream!
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > they have been merged on Wednesday.
> …
> 
> Great, thanks!
> 
> It would be possible to apply/backport Miguel's patches (along with
> 5fd99b5d9950d6300467ded18ff4e44af0b4ae55) to stable versions please?

I don't see that git commit id in Linus's tree, are you sure it is
correct?

> FWIW, in the context of Debian, I'm personally interested in 4.19.y.

What specific list of commits are you wanting to see backported?

thanks,

greg k-h