linux-kernel - Re: HID: Stable backport request (all viable versions)

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Date:   Mon, 13 Mar 2023 11:51:08 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Lee Jones <lee@...nel.org>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: HID: Stable backport request (all viable versions)

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 09:08:34AM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
> Dear Stable,
> 
> On Sun, 12 Mar 2023, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> > It's another Sunday afternoon. which must mean another rc release.
> >
> > This one looks fairly normal, although if you look at the diffs, they
> > are dominated by the removal of a staging driver (r8188eu) that has
> > been superceded by a proper driver. That removal itself is 90% of the
> > diffs.
> >
> > But if you filter that out, it all looks normal. Still more than two
> > thirds in drivers, but hey, that's pretty normal. It's mostly gpu and
> > networking as usual, but there's various other driver fixes in there
> > too.
> >
> > Outside of that regular driver noise (and the unusual driver removal
> > noise) it's a little bit of everything: core networking, arch fixes,
> > documentation, filesystems (btrfs, xfs, and ext4, but also some core
> > vfs fixes). And io_uring and some tooling.
> >
> > The full shortlog is appended, for the adventurous souls that want to
> > get that kind of details. The release feels fairly normal so far, but
> > it's early days. Please keep testing and reporting any issues,
> >
> >                  Linus
> >
> > ---
> 
> > Lee Jones (2):
> >       HID: core: Provide new max_buffer_size attribute to over-ride the default
> >       HID: uhid: Over-ride the default maximum data buffer value with our own
> 
> These 2 are now in Mainline:
> 
>   b1a37ed00d790 HID: core: Provide new max_buffer_size attribute to over-ride the default
>   1c5d4221240a2 HID: uhid: Over-ride the default maximum data buffer value with our own
> 
> Please could you add them to Stable, as far bask as they'll go please.

Applied to 6.1.y and 6.2.y, anything older than that will need
backports.

thanks,

greg k-h