From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chase Douglas Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:46:30 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9A3C36.2080601@canonical.com> References: <1301691819-2090-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> <4D9A1407.6030308@canonical.com> <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Jeffrey Brown , Jiri Kosina , Henrik Rydberg , Simon Budig , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org On 04/04/2011 05:39 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 02:55:03PM -0400, Chase Douglas wrote: >> On 04/04/2011 02:13 PM, Jeffrey Brown wrote: >>> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Jiri Kosina wrote: >>>> I'd happuly take Chase's patch, but want to make sure that we don't cause >>>> any changes that would make backwards compatilibity an issue later. >>> >>> There should be no compatibility issues. However, we might be better >>> off in the long term taking (some variation of) these patches instead. >> >> I like the proposed changes, but I want to ensure stable kernel releases >> aren't left out of the fix for hid-magicmouse. I don't know the best way >> forward, but here's one possibility: >> >> 1. Apply my patch to manually set the buffer size hint >> 2. It gets sent to stable trees due to the 'Cc: stable@kernel.org' line >> 3. Apply Jeffrey's patches, including a reversion of my buffer size hint >> >> Obviously the extra application and reversion is odd, but this seems the >> easiest way forward given that the patches already exist and can be >> applied without issue. >> > > Or, once Jeffrey's patches hit mainline, send your change to stable with > the explanation why it is needed for stable but not for mainline. I'm fine with this too. I'll watch the list to see what happens. Thanks, -- Chase