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 <jkosina@xxxxxxx> 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@xxxxxxxxxx' 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-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
