linux-kernel - Re: [ 73/77] [hid] usb hid quirks for Masterkit MA901 usb radio

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Date:	Mon, 04 Mar 2013 14:25:56 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@...co.com>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>,
	Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [ 73/77] [hid] usb hid quirks for Masterkit MA901 usb radio

On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 14:05 +0300, Alexey Klimov wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > 3.8-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> >
> > ------------------
> >
> > From: Alexey Klimov <klimov.linux@...il.com>
> >
> > commit 0322bd3980b3ebf7dde8474e22614cb443d6479a upstream.
> >
> > Don't let Masterkit MA901 USB radio be handled by usb hid drivers.
> > This device will be handled by radio-ma901.c driver.
[...]
> These usb hid quirks are related to new usb radio driver
> media/radio/radio-ma901.c  (commit
> 4834f4d1ff1dc574024e1a6de920ea99571090ff in upstream) that was merged
> during 3.9 merge window. So i am not sure if they have any sense
> without driver itself. Also, they shouldn't make any damage as far as
> i can imagine.

I think that if the HID driver doesn't do anything useful with this
device then this is still worth including in stable - it makes it
possible to use an out-of-tree build of radio-ma901 with older kernel
versions.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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