Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 20 Sep 2015 15:22:34 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | 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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