This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: sony: do not bail out when the sixaxis refuses the output report to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: hid-sony-do-not-bail-out-when-the-sixaxis-refuses-the-output-report.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 19f4c2ba869517048add62c202f9645b6adf5dfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 17:58:49 +0100 Subject: HID: sony: do not bail out when the sixaxis refuses the output report From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 19f4c2ba869517048add62c202f9645b6adf5dfb upstream. When setting the operational mode, some third party (Speedlink Strike-FX) gamepads refuse the output report. Failing here means we refuse to initialize the gamepad while this should be harmless. The weird part is that the initial commit that added this: a7de9b8 ("HID: sony: Enable Gasia third-party PS3 controllers") mentions this very same controller as one requiring this output report. Anyway, it's broken for one user at least, so let's change it. We will report an error, but at least the controller should work. And no, these devices present themselves as legacy Sony controllers (VID:PID of 054C:0268, as in the official ones) so there are no ways of discriminating them from the official ones. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1255325 Reported-and-tested-by: Max Fedotov <thesourcehim@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Cc: Laura Abbott <labbott@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c @@ -1418,8 +1418,10 @@ static int sixaxis_set_operational_usb(s } ret = hid_hw_output_report(hdev, buf, 1); - if (ret < 0) - hid_err(hdev, "can't set operational mode: step 3\n"); + if (ret < 0) { + hid_info(hdev, "can't set operational mode: step 3, ignoring\n"); + ret = 0; + } out: kfree(buf); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/i2c-i801-allow-acpi-systemio-opregion-to-conflict-with-pci-bar.patch queue-4.4/hid-sony-do-not-bail-out-when-the-sixaxis-refuses-the-output-report.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html