From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:18856 "EHLO userp1040.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754298AbbFWOYT (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:24:19 -0400 Message-ID: <55896C0C.4090904@oracle.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 10:24:12 -0400 From: Sasha Levin MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin Tissoires CC: stable@vger.kernel.org, stable-commits@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Kosina Subject: Re: [added to the 3.18 stable tree] HID: Introduce hidpp, a module to handle Logitech hid++ devices References: <1434946411-9021-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <1434946411-9021-20-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> <20150622141652.GA10813@mail.corp.redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <20150622141652.GA10813@mail.corp.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/22/2015 10:16 AM, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > Hi Sasha, > > On Jun 22 2015 or thereabouts, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > From: Benjamin Tissoires >> > >> > This patch has been added to the 3.18 stable tree. If you have any >> > objections, please let us know. >> > >> > =============== >> > >> > [ Upstream commit 2f31c52529103d8f0e1485272064f982d14ce54a ] > I am not sure it is a good idea to backport this one in stable without > the fixes that has been introduced later (memory leaks, logic, etc...). > > Also, the T651 should work just fine in the mouse emulation mode in a > v3.18 kernel, so I am not sure why we would need to have this driver > backported. > > Could you please elaborate why this is needed in 3.18? I wasn't aware that it works in mouse emulation rather than not working at all when I got the request to backport it. I'll drop it. Thanks, Sasha