eeepc-wmi backport in Natty ?

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/04/2011 03:57 AM, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Tim Gardner<tim.gardner at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> On 02/14/2011 08:32 AM, Corentin Chary wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I would definitely consider pulling them into Natty once they've
>>>> landed in Linus' tree. There should be time before kernel freeze
>>>> (though it might be close). Please remember to submit a pull
>>>> request at the appropriate time.
>>>
>>> They won't hit Linus' tree before the 2.6.39 merge window, since
>>> 2.6.38 merge window is already closed. But there are already in
>>> Matthew's tree
>>>
>>> (http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/mjg59/platform-drivers-x86.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-next).
>>>
>>>
>> Anyway, I'll submit a pull request as soon as possible.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>
>> Understood. Please be sure as part of your backport to Natty that you use
>> 'git cherry-pick -x' so that the original upstream commit is preserved.
>
> Hum it seems that you already started to pickup some patchs that are
> not yet in Linus tree:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kernel-team/2011-March/014810.html
>
> These commits fix small keymaps issues, but you should really take all
> the patchs from:
> "eeepc-wmi: add hotplug code for Eeepc 1000H" to "eeepc-wmi: reorder device ids"
>
> Because they fix critical bugs for 1000H are greatly stabilize the whole code.
>
> Thanks,
>

So, I see a pile of commits to drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-wmi.c in 
linux-next. Are any of these gonna make it into the 2.6.39 merge window? 
If so, perhaps you could send a list of the commits you'd like to see 
added to Natty once they are merged in Linus' tree.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com