This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    Input: synaptics - do not retrieve the board id on old firmwares

to the 3.19-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     input-synaptics-do-not-retrieve-the-board-id-on-old-firmwares.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.19 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From b57a7128be24062b5b5b26032b7cd58f1651547e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 22:33:36 -0700
Subject: Input: synaptics - do not retrieve the board id on old firmwares

From: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>

commit b57a7128be24062b5b5b26032b7cd58f1651547e upstream.

The board id capability has been added in firmware 7.5.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
@@ -250,6 +250,10 @@ static int synaptics_board_id(struct psm
        struct synaptics_data *priv = psmouse->private;
        unsigned char bid[3];
 
+       /* firmwares prior 7.5 have no board_id encoded */
+       if (SYN_ID_FULL(priv->identity) < 0x705)
+               return 0;
+
        if (synaptics_send_cmd(psmouse, SYN_QUE_MODES, bid))
                return -1;
        priv->board_id = ((bid[0] & 0xfc) << 6) | bid[1];


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 
[email protected] are

queue-3.19/input-synaptics-query-min-dimensions-for-fw-v8.1.patch
queue-3.19/input-synaptics-fix-middle-button-on-lenovo-2015-products.patch
queue-3.19/input-synaptics-do-not-retrieve-the-board-id-on-old-firmwares.patch
queue-3.19/input-synaptics-handle-spurious-release-of-trackstick-buttons.patch
queue-3.19/input-synaptics-skip-quirks-when-post-2013-dimensions.patch
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