Re: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size

[Chase Douglas <chase.douglas@canonical.com>]

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 <jkosina@suse.cz> 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