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

Jiri Kosina
2013-01-22T10:05:08Z

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:

> > > 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.

Yes, that's necessary in case you are cherry-picking a commit already
present in Linus' tree that doesn't have explicit "Cc:
stable@vger.kernel.org". Otherwise, -stable tree maintainer is
automatically picking up commits that appear in Linus tree with this tag.

>
> > 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.

It's not strictly necessary. I get copied on them when they are queued in
-stable queue anyway.

> 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.

Ok, thanks.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs