Pulling another change into intrepid

Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com Mario_Limonciello at Dell.com
Fri Feb 13 14:20:51 UTC 2009


This shouldn't be needed for hardy, the regression started to show up in
Intrepid.  Good to see it's already coming in stable updates.

-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Bader [mailto:stefan.bader at canonical.com] 
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 4:43 AM
To: tim.gardner at canonical.com
Cc: Limonciello, Mario; Kernel team list
Subject: Re: Pulling another change into intrepid

Tim Gardner wrote:
> Mario Limonciello wrote:
>> Tim:
>>
>> I've been watching some drive by bug reports that pass by and
realized that this 
>> quirk is applicable to much older hardware.  If there is another
kernel that 
>> will be entering intrepid at some point with upstream 2.6.27.x stable
changes, 
>> can you try to get this added too?
>>
>> I saw it mentioned in the 2.6.28 changelogs.
>>
>> * Input: atkbd - broaden the Dell DMI signatures
>>     - LP: #261721 <https://edge.launchpad.net/bugs/261721>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> -- 
>> Mario Limonciello
>> *Dell | Linux Engineering*
>> mario_limonciello at dell.com
> 
> Its now on Stefan's todo list.

For Intrepid this actually come in with 2.6.27.15

http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/ubuntu-intrepid.git;a=commitdiff;h
=0cbc5c9e5316272fed962581104bdb8debdc9251

Question: should this also be done for Hardy?

Stefan

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