[Precise PATCH 0/6] Support for new Sentelic touchpad (LP #969334)

[Brad Figg]

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  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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