Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754551Ab1DDVjT (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:39:19 -0400 Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:46716 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753856Ab1DDVjQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2011 17:39:16 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=GslJzPps1y8eRsUu63GuPgr6kPFg2yuAp6X7c0gAM3CYmz+KDOS93BO5bMN3Z8Up84 5w1GTmAPncWjtxQwTALsKoaOKHrRYvRcJVMenD5ZM2CzF1RFN78bkit8X6VTf67oFlLl wcqMbXCuC0lZcUjV6GOP4b34nKfgQiU6HjbG0= Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 14:39:10 -0700 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Chase Douglas Cc: Jeffrey Brown , Jiri Kosina , Henrik Rydberg , Simon Budig , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size Message-ID: <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <1301691819-2090-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> <4D9A1407.6030308@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4D9A1407.6030308@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1472 Lines: 34 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 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. Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/