rndis_host learns ActiveSync basics
Windows Mobile 5 based devices described as supporting "ActiveSync":
- Speak RNDIS but lack the CDC and union descriptors. This patch
updates the cdc ethernet code to fake ACM descriptors we need.
- Require RNDIS_MSG_QUERY messages to include a buffer of the size the
response should generate. This patch updates the rndis host code to
pass this will-be-ignored data.
The resulting RNDIS host code has been reported to work with several
WM5 based devices.
(Note that a fancier patch is available at synce.sf.net.)
Some bugfixes, affecting not just ActiveSync:
(a) when cleaning up after RNDS init fails, scrub the second interface
just like cdc_ether does, so disconnect won't oops.
(b) handle peripherals that use the pad-to-end-of-packet option; some
devices can't talk to us if that option doesn't work.
(c) when choosing configurations, don't forget about an RNDIS config
just because the RNDIS driver is dynamically linked.
Cleanup, streamlining, bugfixes, Kconfig, and matching hub driver update.
Also for paranoia's sake, refuse to talk to something that looks like a
real modem instead of RNDIS.
Signed-off-by: Ole Andre Vadla Ravnaas <oleavr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/usb/net/Kconfig b/drivers/usb/net/Kconfig
index e081836..a2b94ef5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/net/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/usb/net/Kconfig
@@ -222,13 +222,15 @@
adapters marketed under the DeLOCK brand.
config USB_NET_RNDIS_HOST
- tristate "Host for RNDIS devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ tristate "Host for RNDIS and ActiveSync devices (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on USB_USBNET && EXPERIMENTAL
select USB_NET_CDCETHER
help
This option enables hosting "Remote NDIS" USB networking links,
as encouraged by Microsoft (instead of CDC Ethernet!) for use in
- various devices that may only support this protocol.
+ various devices that may only support this protocol. A variant
+ of this protocol (with even less public documentation) seems to
+ be at the root of Microsoft's "ActiveSync" too.
Avoid using this protocol unless you have no better options.
The protocol specification is incomplete, and is controlled by