Re: Patch "HID: asus: Add i2c touchpad support" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 06:06:19PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     HID: asus: Add i2c touchpad support
> 
> to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
>     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> 
> The filename of the patch is:
>      hid-asus-add-i2c-touchpad-support.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
> 
> 
> >From foo@baz Mon Apr 10 17:43:56 CEST 2017
> From: alexander.levin@verizon.com
> Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2017 19:32:15 +0000
> Subject: HID: asus: Add i2c touchpad support
> To: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: "stable@vger.kernel.org" <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Message-ID: <20170404193158.19041-36-alexander.levin@verizon.com>
> 
> From: Brendan McGrath <redmcg@redmandi.dyndns.org>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 9ce12d8be12c94334634dd57050444910415e45f ]
> 
> Update the hid-asus module to add multitouch support for the Asus i2c touchpad.
> 
> This patch aims to resolve the issue raised here:
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120181
> 
> The issue is in relation to an Asus touchpad device which currently does not
> have multitouch support.
> 
> The device currently falls through to the hid-generic driver which
> treats the device as a mouse.
> 
> This patch aims to add the multitouch support.
> 
> [jkosina@suse.cz: move most of the 'patch comment' into actual changelog]
> [jkosina@suse.cz: drop hunk that changes ->name of the driver]
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Brendan McGrath <redmcg@redmandi.dyndns.org>
> Signed-off-by: Victor Vlasenko <victor.vlasenko@sysgears.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederik Wenigwieser <frederik.wenigwieser@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@verizon.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/Kconfig    |    2 
>  drivers/hid/hid-asus.c |  299 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  drivers/hid/hid-core.c |    1 
>  drivers/hid/hid-ids.h  |    1 
>  4 files changed, 296 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Ick, no, again, a new driver, not ok Sasha...

I'll go drop this as well...

greg k-h