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Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: Allow loading of module on recent Apple MacBooks with thunderbolt 2 controller

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On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 09:25:22PM +0200, Knuth Posern wrote:
> The pci device ids listed in the thunderbolt driver are to restrictive,
> which prevents the driver from being loaded on recent Apple MacBooks
> using a thunderbolt 2 controller. In particular this prevented any
> hot-plugging functionality for thunderbolt based ethernet dongles
> (i.e. Apples thunderbolt gigabit ethernet broadcom tg3 based dongle
> Model A1433 EMC 2590).
> 
> Changing the subvendor and subdevice to PCI_ANY_ID the thunderbolt driver
> loads and binds to the pci device 07:00.0 System peripheral:
> Intel Corporation Device 156c which is the thunderbolt 2 controller on
> the MacBookPro12,1.
> 
> Successfully tested on MacBookPro12,1. With the patch the thunderbolt
> module gets now loaded on boot. And it provides hot-plugging support both
> for a cold-plugged and a warm-plugged ethernet dongle.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Noever <andreas.noever@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Knuth Posern <knuth@posern.org>
> ---
> 
> ... never 2 without 3 ;)

Thanks for being persistent, that worked fine and is now queued up, you
should have received an email with all of the details.

greg k-h
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[PATCH] thunderbolt: Allow loading of module on recent Apple MacBooks  with thunderbolt 2 controller Knuth Posern <knuth@posern.org> - 2015-09-20 21:30 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] thunderbolt: Allow loading of module on recent Apple  MacBooks with thunderbolt 2 controller Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> - 2015-09-21 00:30 +0200

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