Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754604Ab1DETpv (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:45:51 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:35553 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752954Ab1DETpr (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Apr 2011 15:45:47 -0400 Message-ID: <4D9B7164.5070309@canonical.com> Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 15:45:40 -0400 From: Chase Douglas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dmitry Torokhov 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 References: <1301691819-2090-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> <4D9A1407.6030308@canonical.com> <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1741 Lines: 38 On 04/04/2011 05:39 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > 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. One thing that crossed my mind is that Jeffrey's patches wouldn't be merged until 2.6.40, right? If so, even 2.6.39 will be released with this bug, which makes me want to go with the plan I outlined above. Thanks, -- Chase -- 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/