Re: [PATCH v2] HID: add support for Sony RF receiver with USB productid 0x0374
From: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Date: Tue Jan 22 2013 - 00:57:48 EST
On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:44 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:
> I noticed that the patch was tagged "for-3.9". Does this mean
> that it is too late to get it merged during the current release
> cycle?
I currently don't have anything queued for 3.8, and this particular patch
doesn't justify a separate pull request.
Once it's in Linus' tree, it can be easily pushed out to all existing
-stable branches (including 3.8-stable, once it's created).
If I am gfoing to be sending pull request for 3.8 to Linus still due to
some important bugfix, I will be including this.
Ok, thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it.
> If possible, I would like to get it backported to 3.7-stable (and
> possibly 3.2 stable), since without it a whole family of Sony desktop
> computers is unusable under Linux out of the box. Should I do it myself
> or do you have a process in place for HID stable patches?
If the patch had
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
in it, it'd be picked for -stable queue automatically.
I considered doing that but I thought and upstream commit
ID was needed.
Otherwise, anyone is free to take it once it's in Linus' tree and sent
to to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for inclusion.
So it is the standard procedure. I just wanted to make
sure whether you wanted to have all the -stable patches
funnelled through you. I will send the patch to -stable
directly and Cc you as soon as it makes it into Linus'
tree.
By the way, I will be replying to this email with a
follow-up patch that I forgot to send the last time
around. It is just documentation for the quirk.
Thanks,
Fernando
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