Re: [PATCH v2] HID: add support for Sony RF receiver with USB productid 0x0374

[Jiri Kosina]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2013, Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao wrote:

> > > 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.

Yes, that's necessary in case you are cherry-picking a commit already 
present in Linus' tree that doesn't have explicit "Cc: 
stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx". Otherwise, -stable tree maintainer is 
automatically picking up commits that appear in Linus tree with this tag.

> 
> > 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. 

It's not strictly necessary. I get copied on them when they are queued in 
-stable queue anyway.

> 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.

Ok, thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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