eeepc-wmi backport in Natty ?

[Tim Gardner]

On 03/29/2011 06:27 AM, Corentin Chary wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 2:30 PM, Tim Gardner<tim.gardner at canonical.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>
> It's now in Linus tree, so we're good.
> There is only one patch missing, because I discovered the issue
> yesterday. It's available here
> http://git.iksaif.net/?p=acpi4asus.git;a=blobdiff;f=drivers/platform/x86/asus-wmi.c;h=832a3fd7c1c8538ef77fd26c628e0ddd2c1644d6;hp=efc776cb0c664e0c8bf19c092c0a48367d4e1043;hb=1b7ad58035d14ead17b0eb0738df9335b7ebacb7;hpb=1c05db880a0073dcad097a664525ae091eef1783
> . This patch will probably be in 2.6.39-rc1, but I don't know when it
> will happen.
>

Perhaps between you and Seth you can send a pull request or cherry-pick 
list of commits that you'd like applied.

rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com