Backporting the HDA Jack sense patches to Precise

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 11:44 +0100, David Henningsson wrote:
> A follow-up to the earlier thoughts about having the new jack detection 
> interface in Precise. [1] Takashi has now merged the code into his main 
> branch, which means it'll make it into 3.3. I think now would be a good 
> time to start testing/backporting it into the Precise kernel.
> 
> Is there anything I need to know about how do we go about this? I was 
> thinking to do this:
> 
> 1) I'll export the relevant patches from Takashi's tree with git 
> format-patch

You may want to cherry-pick instead.

> 2) I'll create a local branch of the Precise git tree and applying them 
> one by one, backporting/changing as necessary

For tracking purposes, if you do cherry-pick, could you use the -x
option.  Could you also be sure also modify the commit message to note
which git repo it was cherry-picked from, eg:

(cherry-picked from <sha1> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git)

In the event that the patch does not cherry-pick cleanly, could you
modify the commit message to note it's a backport rather than a clean
cherry-pick, eg:

(backported from <sha1> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound.git)

> 3) I'll build a test kernel
> 4) I'll test the new feature on at least two machines I have here and 
> confirm that it works.
> 5) I'll push the branch for review/inclusion into a public tree at 
> kernel.ubuntu.com.
> 
> Does this seem reasonable?

Sounds fine.

Thanks,
Leann