Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 16 Feb 2016 11:05:45 +0100 (CET) | From | Jiri Kosina <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] HID: fix hid_ignore_special_drivers module parameter |
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On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> hid_ignore_special_drivers works fine until hid_scan_report > autodetects and reassign devices (for hid-multitouch, > hid-microsoft and hid-rmi). > > Simplify the handling of the parameter: if it is there, use > hid-generic, no matter what, and if not, scan the device or > rely on the hid_have_special_driver table. > > This was detected while trying to disable hid-multitouch on > a Surface Pro cover which prevented to use the keyboard. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> > CC: stable@vger.kernel.org > --- > > Hi Jiri, > > not sure if we should keep or not the stable@ tag. The issue was there for a > long time, and nobody complained. It's up to you.
I've now applied it to for-4.5/upstream-fixes, but will wait if there is any other more important fix that'd trigger the push of this branch to Linus; otherwise it'll go in the merge window pile and will get backported to -stable later.
Thanks,
-- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs
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