linux-kernel - Re: Patch to consider for stable 3.18, 4.4 and 4.9

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Message-ID: <20180713132156.GD21619@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 15:21:56 +0200
From:   Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:     Tomasz Kramkowski <tk@...-tk.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@...rosoft.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patch to consider for stable 3.18, 4.4 and 4.9

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