Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756115Ab1DFNSU (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:18:20 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50389 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756067Ab1DFNSP (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:18:15 -0400 Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 06:18:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Jiri Kosina To: Chase Douglas Cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Jeffrey Brown , Henrik Rydberg , Simon Budig , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] hid-magicmouse: Increase evdev buffer size In-Reply-To: <4D9B7164.5070309@canonical.com> Message-ID: References: <1301691819-2090-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> <4D9A1407.6030308@canonical.com> <20110404213910.GD984@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4D9B7164.5070309@canonical.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1653 Lines: 38 On Tue, 5 Apr 2011, Chase Douglas 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. OK, applied. Thanks everybody. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs, Novell Inc. -- 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/