Re: [PATCH] media: rc: IR signal for Panasonic air conditioner too long sequences is too small

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:51:55AM +0100, Sean Young wrote:
> Hello stable team, Greg,
> 
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 06:06:29PM +0900, Takashi Kanamaru wrote:
> > Dear Sean Young and all,
> > 
> > In the last year, a change of the value of LIRCBUF_SIZE
> > from 256 to 1024 was committed to the master branch at the time,
> > and the new value can be used in the kernel 5.3 or later.
> > 
> > https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/5c4c8b4a999019f19e770cb55cbacb89c95897bd#diff-3b71f634ae88214ee31a1b6c90f7df5c
> > 
> > This change of LIRCBUF_SIZE was proposed
> > in order to treat long IR sequences of remote controllers
> > on Raspberry Pi.
> > 
> > However, Raspberry Pi now uses kernel 4.19,
> > so the new value cannot be used.
> > 
> > Can you backport the above commit
> > to the older kernels, i.e.,
> > 4.19, 4.20, 5.0, 5.1, and 5.2?
> 
> I'd like to propose this commit for the stable tree, from kernel 4.16 to
> 5.2. It has been in the tree from v5.3 onwards and no regressions have
> been found.

The only kernel being supported in that range is 4.19 at the moment, so
I'll queue it up now, thanks.  All other kernel trees are long
end-of-life and no one should be using them anymore.

thanks,

greg k-h