ACK: [SRU] [C/D/Unstable] [PATCH 0/1] Fix new hid-steam driver that breaks some Steam games

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Mon Dec 10 21:47:27 UTC 2018


On Sat, Dec 08, 2018 at 03:25:23PM +0800, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1798583
> 
> [Impact]
> New steam-hid driver breaks Unity games.
> 
> [Fix]
> Quote from the commit message:
> "With this commit, when a HID client starts, the input device is removed;
> when the HID client ends the input device is recreated."
> 
> [Test]
> A guy from Valve comfirms the backport works.
> 
> [Regression Potential]
> Low. This fix is specific to hid-steam, which is a new driver introduced
> in v4.18.

Upstream cherry pick, limited impact.

Acked-by: Seth Forshee <seth.forshee at canonical.com>

This is already present in unstable and disco (via upstream stable).
Thanks!



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