Re: [PATCH v2] HID: add support for Sony RF receiver with USB product id 0x0374

Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao
2013-01-22T05:58:04Z

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@vger.kernel.org
>
> 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@vger.kernel.org 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