[hardy] patches revisited: sensor support for macbook air

[Tim Gardner]

Stefan Bader wrote:
> Henrik Rydberg wrote:
>> Stefan Bader wrote:
>>> Working through my work queues i stumbled over an old patch I had been
>>> asked to add to Hardy which somehow got lost in the depths of
>>> directories.
>>> By now there is a more complete version of this upstream, as well as
>>> support for even some more models. The individual patches all are quite
>>> simple and I think it might be worth to backport those as SRUs. Thoughts
>>> on this?
>>>
>>> Stefan
>>>
>>
>> All for, of course. I sent a list of 8 patches in Intrepid to be replaced
> 
> Of course. ;-)
> 
>> by 9 patches upstream a little while ago. Since then, additional patches
>> have appeared upstream. Is a LP# required for each patch to revert?
>>
>> Henrik
>>
> Personally I'd say for trivial reformatting patches, one LP# would be
> enough. Real bugfixes however separate, except those which go into a
> -stable update, which we try to handle in batches from -stable.
> Tim, what do you say?
> 
> Stefan
> 

I don't think trivial reformatting patches warrant SRU application
unless they are required for real bug fix patches. In that case both
patches can be combined in one LP.

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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com