On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 08:43:41PM +0000, Tomasz Kramkowski wrote: > In September last year, Ben Hutchings submitted commit [9547837bdccb] > for 3.16.48-rc1 and I informed him that it would be useless without > [3f3752705dbd] (and that maybe [c3883fe06488] would be useful as well). > Ben dropped the patch but suggested I email this list with the > information of the other two patches but I never quite got around to it. > > Now I see Sasha Levin is submitting [3f3752705dbd] and [c3883fe06488] > for 4.9, 4.4 and 3.18 it would now make sense to include [9547837bdccb]. > This patch fixes a minor problem where a certain USB adapter for Sega > Genesis controllers appears as one input device when it has two ports > for two controllers. I imagine some users of emulator distributions > might use stable kernels and might benefit from this fix. > > I'm actually not entirely sure that patch is something suitable for > stable but since it was already submitted once then I don't think it > hurts to bring it up again (despite it breaking stable-kernel-rules as > far as I understand it). > > Commits mentioned: > [9547837bdccb]: HID: usbhid: add quirk for innomedia INNEX GENESIS/ATARI adapter > [3f3752705dbd]: HID: reject input outside logical range only if null state is set > [c3883fe06488]: HID: clamp input to logical range if no null state > > If the patch [9547837bdccb] is not relevant then feel free to ignore > this email. Sorry for the long delay, now queued up. greg k-h
