eeepc-wmi backport in Natty ?

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/22/2011 01:18 PM, Seth Forshee wrote:
> Tim,
>
> On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 04:01:37PM +0000, Corentin Chary wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Hi,
>> They should all make it into the 2.6.39 merge window, but  "when"
>> depends on Matthew Garett's pull request.
>> Those I want to include to natty are all commits up to
>> d2cb95cdd419ead71f6d00eed90c924920d5053e "eeepc-wmi: reorder device
>> ids".
>> After that, there are a lot of changes that you probably don't want,
>> the module needs linux/input.h changes, and then there si the big
>> asus-wmi split...
>
> I had cherry-picked these changesets on top of the natty kernel a couple
> of weeks ago to test on a machine I've been working with. I went ahead
> and rebased on top of the latest master and pushed it out to:
>
>    git://kernel.ubuntu.com/sforshee/ubuntu-natty.git eeepc-wmi-backports
>
> If you plan to incorporate those changes then you should just be able to
> pull them in from there.

Its good to know these commits work. However, I'd still like to wait 
until we can cherry-pick these from Linus' tree. It just reduces the 
amount of maintenance and chances for conflict with stable. We've still 
got a couple of weeks before kernel freeze.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com