[Bug 1786574] Re: remove i2c-i801 from blacklist

[ Christian Ehrhardt ]

Hi,
first of all this package seems to have quite some issues in the merges that are done - it doesn't list all remaining changes and the i2c blacklist is one of them.
It comes from like back in 2005 and I agree, it might or is safe to be removed.

Thanks to Stefan Bader for cleaning this up, as the MP linked here has e.g. on changelog entries.
I'd ack to his branch at [1] for Cosmic, is it would be an MP to ack on.

But for the actual sponsoring, as I never really touched kmod before I'd
be happy if you'd ask one of the foundations Team that is here this week
that touched it recently as they might have extra considerations. OTOH
the change really looks right for cosmic IMHO, so if no one responds get
back to me.

SRUs of this are quite a different topic for the following reasons:
- if the issues still exists, it might regress somebody due to the SRU then.
- If you can prove that the old issue really does no more exist with e.g. the oldest kernel in Bionic, then it might be done. But you'd have to outline that in detail when completing the SRU template for this bug [2]
Without the prove I'd be concerned and as a SRU member would reject it, so really make sure you 
get this documented right.

What makes an SRU even more likely (if there is a regression risk) is
that the fix for those affected would be a simple config change, so no
one "relies" on this being SRUed to get out of it.

[1]: https://git.launchpad.net/~smb/ubuntu/+source/kmod/log/?h=ubuntu/cosmic-proposed
[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

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Title:
  remove i2c-i801 from blacklist

Status in HWE Next:
  New
Status in OEM Priority Project:
  New
Status in kmod package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in kmod source package in Xenial:
  Confirmed
Status in kmod source package in Bionic:
  Confirmed
Status in kmod source package in Cosmic:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  We have a Lenovo Thinkpad machine that requires i2c-i801 kernel module
  to work, but it is listed in /etc/modprobe/blacklist.conf in Ubuntu.
  To use the touchpad, users have to remove the i2c-i801 line manually.

  i2c-i801 in blacklist.conf is a very old workaround to fix HP compaq nc6000
  (Bug #16602), this module should be removed from blacklist.

  There is also another bug (Bug #1475945) that needs this module for
  Acer trackpad to work.

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