Req: thermald special case

[Timo Aaltonen]

Christopher James Halse Rogers kirjoitti 28.9.2022 klo 10.07:
> Hi!
> 
> On Mon, Sep 26 2022 at 10:57:48 +0800, Koba Ko <koba.ko at canonical.com> 
> wrote:
>> hi,
>> may I have an update for the thermald?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Koba Ko
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 1:24 PM Koba Ko <koba.ko at canonical.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  hi,
>>>  for thermald, it's necessary upgrade thermald to 2.5.0 for jammy,
>>>  For some issues, it's almost the same with 2.5.0 after backporting 
>>> the needed.
>>>  please kindly approve for thermald,
>>>  here's the wiki of thermald
>>>  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/thermald
>>>
>>>  Thanks
>>>  Koba Ko
> 
> It's not entirely clear to me what you want to do here.
> 
> If you need to fix some bugs in Jammy, and updating to thermald 2.5.0 is 
> basically the same as applying all the patches you'd need, then you can 
> just upload 2.5.0 and justify it in the SRU bug.
> 
> A wiki page such as you've drafted would be necessary if you want to get 
> an on-going special process for SRUing thermald. I'm not sure that's 
> necessary - it seems to have generally been possible to cherry-pick any 
> necessary hardware enablement in the past without too much issue.
> 
> Has something changed in thermald maintenance that suggests we're going 
> to need to regularly take new upstream releases rather than 
> cherry-picking hardware enablement patches as necessary?

Hi,

I've uploaded a backported thermald to jammy queue, anyone willing to 
have a look? Focal is next once this is accepted.


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