On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 12:28:48AM +0100, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Feb 2012, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> > The patch below does not apply to the 3.2-stable tree.
> > If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
> > tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
> > id to <[email protected]>.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> > 
> > ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
> > 
> > >From c1c454b8691cc95aa83f19273ed7845914c70e83 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: "K. Y. Srinivasan" <[email protected]>
> > Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2012 08:57:14 -0800
> > Subject: [PATCH] HID: hyperv: Properly disconnect the input device
> > 
> > When we unload the mouse driver, properly disconnect the input device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
> > Reported-by: Fuzhou Chen <[email protected]>
> > Cc: stable <[email protected]>
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> > index 0c33ae9..4066324 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-hyperv.c
> > @@ -548,6 +548,7 @@ static int mousevsc_remove(struct hv_device *dev)
> >     struct mousevsc_dev *input_dev = hv_get_drvdata(dev);
> >  
> >     vmbus_close(dev->channel);
> > +   hid_hw_stop(input_dev->hid_device);
> >     hid_destroy_device(input_dev->hid_device);
> >     mousevsc_free_device(input_dev);
> 
> Well, as the whole driver has been moved out of staging only for 3.3-rc1, 
> I think that Cc: stable is actually a mistake here, as there is no 
> already-released 3.x kernel for which this would be applicable (and I 
> believe we are not putting -staging patches into -stable, right?).

No, we do take staging patches into stable, if needed.  If all that I
have to do here is a simple "the file is in a different place", that's
fine.  But odds are, due the number of changes in this area, it will
need more than that.

KY, any thoughts?

greg k-h
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