linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] HID: Fix missing Unifying device issue

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Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1209220949380.32086@pobox.suse.cz>
Date:	Sat, 22 Sep 2012 09:50:22 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
To:	Nestor Lopez Casado <nlopezcasad@...itech.com>
Cc:	Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	685360@...s.debian.org, john.ettedgui@...il.com, barz621@...il.com,
	joy@...bugs.entuzijast.net, dh.herrmann@...glemail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] HID: Fix missing Unifying device issue

On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Nestor Lopez Casado wrote:

> This patch fixes an issue introduced after commit 4ea5454203d991ec
> 
> After that commit, hid-core silently discards any incoming packet
> that arrives while any hid driver's probe function is being executed.
> 
> This broke the enumeration process of hid-logitech-dj, that must
> receive control packets in-band with the mouse and keyboard
> packets. Discarding mouse or keyboard data at the very begining is
> usually fine, but it is not the case for control packets.
> 
> This patch forces a re-enumeration of the paired devices when a packet
> arrives that comes from an unknown device.
> 
> Based on a patch originally written by Benjamin Tissoires.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nestor Lopez Casado <nlopezcasad@...itech.com>

I am now applying it, will be pushing to Linus very soon, and am also 
marking it for stable 3.2+

Thanks to everyone involved.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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