[Precise PATCH 0/6] Support for new Sentelic touchpad (LP #969334)
Brad Figg
brad.figg at canonical.com
Thu Apr 12 17:02:34 UTC 2012
These patch submission details area all spelled out in:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/StablePatchFormat
Brad
On 04/12/2012 09:58 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-12 at 21:58 +0800, Eric Miao wrote:
>> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/969334
>>
>> These patches have actually been upstreamed and landed in v3.4-rc1:
>>
>> Sentelic's originally posted patches: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/3/23/1
>>
>> Merged into Linus tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=2f7fa1be66dce77608330c5eb918d6360b5525f2
>>
>> The 6 patches below are applicable to the current precise kernel, and
>> have been verified to work by at least Ike and the bug reporter.
>>
>> I know this is really late in the dev phase, but this is a hwcert block
>> issue, and I'm posting here in the hope that we can find some solution
>> out. There are several options from my understanding:
>>
>> 1) get the patches to be accepted by -stable
>>
>> 2) a dkms package
>>
>> 3) get a minimal patch to enable this so to reduce the possibility
>> of regression to minimal
>>
>> 4) merge this series as is
>
> Patches 1/6 and 2/6 look to be a fairly low risk of regression. The
> remaining patches (including the additional patch Chase mentioned) look
> to only affect the sentelic driver and thus limit the scope for
> regression potential. Given that there has been positive test
> confirmation and these patches have been included upstream, I'd be
> willing to give these an Ack for Precise and have them bake through the
> SRU process.
>
> However, I would first ask for a few modifications to the commit
> messages...
>
> 1) Please update the commits to mention which upstream commit they
> originate from. Assuming they were clean cherry-picks into Precise, I'd
> like to see the following in the commit message (it's auto inserted if
> you use the cherry-pick -x option):
>
> (cherry picked from commit <sha1>)
>
> otherwise if they needed fixing up before being applied to Precise,
> please use:
>
> (backported from commit <sha1>)
>
> 2) If you could add the BugLink to each of the individual commits, that
> would be appreciated too.
>
> 3) Lastly, if you want to make the above changes and just send a single
> pull request rather than resending the patches individually, that would
> be fine.
>
> Pending the above,
> Acked-by: Leann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com>
>
>> While 1) is not likely, and 2) is definitely what we want. Are there
>> any other options?
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Andres Salomon (1):
>> Input: psmouse - allow drivers to use psmouse_{de,}activate
>>
>> Oskari Saarenmaa (1):
>> Input: sentelic - improve packet debugging information
>>
>> Paul Fox (1):
>> Input: psmouse - use psmouse_[de]activate() from sentelic and hgpk
>> drivers
>>
>> Tai-hwa Liang (3):
>> Input: sentelic - refactor code for upcoming new hardware support
>> Input: sentelic - enabling absolute coordinates output for newer
>> hardware
>> Input: sentelic - minor code cleanup
>>
>> drivers/input/mouse/hgpk.c | 9 +-
>> drivers/input/mouse/psmouse-base.c | 15 ++-
>> drivers/input/mouse/psmouse.h | 2 +
>> drivers/input/mouse/sentelic.c | 306 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>> drivers/input/mouse/sentelic.h | 35 ++++-
>> 5 files changed, 275 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)
>>
>> --
>> 1.7.9.1
>>
>>
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