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

Jiri Kosina
2013-01-16T10:44:08Z

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.

> 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. Otherwise, anyone
is free to take it once it's in Linus' tree and sent to to
stable@vger.kernel.org for inclusion.

Hope this helps,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs