Return-path: Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:33406 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750840AbbJRSpH (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:45:07 -0400 Received: from compute2.internal (compute2.nyi.internal [10.202.2.42]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03BD62021A for ; Sun, 18 Oct 2015 14:45:05 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 11:45:04 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Frans van de Wiel Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, florian.c.schilhabel@googlemail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3.10-3.18] Driver, staging rtl8712, add support for sitecom WLA2100 Message-ID: <20151018184504.GA6332@kroah.com> (sfid-20151018_204535_647642_CC0B6A16) References: <20151018154547.GA8553@kroah.com> <5845ADB79D70437C90C0CF7433F3D180@FransW7> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <5845ADB79D70437C90C0CF7433F3D180@FransW7> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 07:58:30PM +0200, Frans van de Wiel wrote: > The staging driver rtl8712 lacks support for dongles based on sitecom > WLA2100. > The current driver doesn't contain the usb id for this device, this patch > add it. > > reported by: Frans van de Wiel > Signed-off-by: Frans van de Wiel > --- > This patch is for stable kernels 3.14 to 3.18 > Patch for 3.14.2 is included We can only apply new patches to the latest kernel version, not older ones, as we can't go back in time :) If you want a patch like this backported to older kernels, please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt for how to do that. > > --- linux-3.14.2/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c.orig 2014-04-27 > 02:19:26.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-3.14.2/drivers/staging/rtl8712/usb_intf.c 2014-03-25 > 22:31:33.000000000 +0100 > @@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ static struct usb_device_id rtl871x_usb_ > {USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x0058)}, > {USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x0049)}, > {USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x004C)}, > + {USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x006C)}, > {USB_DEVICE(0x0DF6, 0x0064)}, > /* Skyworth */ > {USB_DEVICE(0x14b2, 0x3300)}, Your patch was line-wrapped and the whitespace all messed up, and can't be applied :( Please make the patch against the linux-next tree and resend it so that we have a chance to apply it. thanks, greg k-h