ANN: Natty kernel (a work in progress)

[Tim Gardner]

On 11/10/2010 06:36 PM, Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> On 11/09/2010 08:50 PM, Tim Gardner wrote:
>
>> For those of you who may not have noticed, the natty kernel is now being
>> regularly uploaded. It is currently based on 2.6.37-rc1 and appears to be quite
>> stable. You can find it in the usual place, e.g.,
>> https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux.
>>
>> Furthermore, we've begun the Natty LTS backport to Lucid which can be found at
>> https://launchpad.net/~kernel-ppa/+archive/ppa. Install one of the LTS meta
>> packages in order to track the progress of this kernel, e.g.,
>> linux-image-server-lts-backport-natty.
>>
>> Please find attached a list of patches that did not survive the rebase from
>> Maverick. There are many patches that are already upstream (HID, etc), some
>> which have already been refreshed (AppArmor, NX emulation), and some which
>> likely need love. Feel free to submit patches...
>>
>> rtg
>>
>
>
> These patches are superseeded upstream and can be dropped entirely:
>
> UBUNTU: [Upstream] Input: evdev - convert to dynamic event buffer
> UBUNTU: [Upstream] Input: evdev - use driver hint to compute size of event
> Input: introduce MT event slots
> input: mt: Initialize slots to unused (rev2)
> mt: Add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad
> Revert input: mt: Add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Input: wacom - parse the Bamboo device family
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Input: wacom - collect device quirks into single function
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Input: wacom - add support for the Bamboo Touch trackpad
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: Input: wacom - add a quirk for low resolution Bamboo devices
> hid: 3m: Convert to MT slots
>
> These patches may reappear in a different form depending on 2.6.38 progress:
>
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: hid: ntrig: remove sysfs nodes
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: hid: ntrig: Setup input filtering manually
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: hid: ntrig: New ghost-filtering event logic
> UBUNTU: SAUCE: hid: ntrig: identify firmware version (wiggled)
>
> Thanks,
> Henrik

Henrik - are there any patches left in natty that _didn't_ conflict 
during the rebase that we really should drop?

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com