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[PATCH] USB: rndis_host whitespace/comment updates

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This adds a "avoid proprietary protocols" warnoff, identifying several
of the known deficiencies in Microsoft's excuse-for-specification, and
fixes some whitespace bugs.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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David Brownell
2006-04-02 10:19:08 -08:00
committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 68dcc688d1
commit 51400f1d6e
1 changed files with 21 additions and 7 deletions
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drivers/usb/net/rndis_host.c
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@@ -39,6 +39,20 @@
* RNDIS is NDIS remoted over USB. It's a MSFT variant of CDC ACM ... of * RNDIS is NDIS remoted over USB. It's a MSFT variant of CDC ACM ... of
* course ACM was intended for modems, not Ethernet links! USB's standard * course ACM was intended for modems, not Ethernet links! USB's standard
* for Ethernet links is "CDC Ethernet", which is significantly simpler. * for Ethernet links is "CDC Ethernet", which is significantly simpler.
*
* NOTE that Microsoft's "RNDIS 1.0" specification is incomplete. Issues
* include:
* - Power management in particular relies on information that's scattered
* through other documentation, and which is incomplete or incorrect even
* there.
* - There are various undocumented protocol requirements, such as the
* need to send unused garbage in control-OUT messages.
* - In some cases, MS-Windows will emit undocumented requests; this
* matters more to peripheral implementations than host ones.
*
* For these reasons and others, ** USE OF RNDIS IS STRONGLY DISCOURAGED ** in
* favor of such non-proprietary alternatives as CDC Ethernet or the newer (and
* currently rare) "Ethernet Emulation Model" (EEM).
*/ */
/* /*