Re: [PATCH 4.19 090/211] media: mceusb: fix (eliminate) TX IR signal length limit

[Sasha Levin]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2019 at 12:12:15PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2019-10-03 17:52:36, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > From: A Sun <as1033x@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Other changes:
> >
> > The driver's write to USB device architecture change (async to sync I/O)
> > is significant so we bump DRIVER_VERSION to "1.95" (from "1.94").
>
> > ---
> >  drivers/media/rc/mceusb.c | 334 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  1 file changed, 196 insertions(+), 138 deletions(-)
>
> This is not a bugfix, this is rewrite that happens to remove a
> limitation, and it is way over the 100 line limit. What is going on
> here? Why is it even considered for stable?

It's on the bigger side, sure, but it's contained inside a driver and
seems to fix an actual issue.

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Thanks,
Sasha