On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 11:44 +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
On Wed, 16 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote: > I noticed that the patch was tagged "for-3.9". Does this mean > that it is too late to get it merged during the current release > cycle? I currently don't have anything queued for 3.8, and this particular patch doesn't justify a separate pull request. Once it's in Linus' tree, it can be easily pushed out to all existing -stable branches (including 3.8-stable, once it's created). If I am gfoing to be sending pull request for 3.8 to Linus still due to some important bugfix, I will be including this.
Ok, thank you for the explanation. I really appreciate it.
> If possible, I would like to get it backported to 3.7-stable (and > possibly 3.2 stable), since without it a whole family of Sony desktop > computers is unusable under Linux out of the box. Should I do it myself > or do you have a process in place for HID stable patches? If the patch had Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in it, it'd be picked for -stable queue automatically.
I considered doing that but I thought and upstream commit ID was needed.
Otherwise, anyone is free to take it once it's in Linus' tree and sent to to stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for inclusion.
So it is the standard procedure. I just wanted to make sure whether you wanted to have all the -stable patches funnelled through you. I will send the patch to -stable directly and Cc you as soon as it makes it into Linus' tree. By the way, I will be replying to this email with a follow-up patch that I forgot to send the last time around. It is just documentation for the quirk. Thanks, Fernando -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
