[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "Input: synaptics - do not retrieve the board id on old firmwares" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

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

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt10.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 03def640ecfc08249a07ee3beb911e284912311d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Mar 2015 22:33:36 -0700
Subject: Input: synaptics - do not retrieve the board id on old firmwares

commit b57a7128be24062b5b5b26032b7cd58f1651547e upstream.

The board id capability has been added in firmware 7.5.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires at redhat.com>
Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
index 367a9457547d..6d04d199b6be 100644
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@ static int synaptics_board_id(struct psmouse *psmouse)
 	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];