Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Jan 2013 14:57:08 +0900 | From | Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] HID: add support for Sony RF receiver with USB product id 0x0374 |
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On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:44 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: > > > I noticed that the patch was tagged "for-3.9". Does this mean > > that it is too late to get it merged during the current release > > cycle? > > I currently don't have anything queued for 3.8, and this particular patch > doesn't justify a separate pull request. > > Once it's in Linus' tree, it can be easily pushed out to all existing > -stable branches (including 3.8-stable, once it's created). > > If I am gfoing to be sending pull request for 3.8 to Linus still due to > some important bugfix, I will be including this.
Ok, thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it.
> > 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.
> 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. I will send the patch to -stable directly and Cc you as soon as it makes it into Linus' tree.
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.
Thanks, Fernando
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