From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Tomasz Kramkowski <tk@the-tk.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch to consider for stable 3.18, 4.4 and 4.9
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:21:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180713132156.GD21619@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180305204341.GB4897@gaia.local>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-13 13:22 UTC|newest]
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2018-03-05 20:43 Tomasz Kramkowski
2018-07-13 13:21 ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-11-11 1:29 ` Ben Hutchings
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