Request for a kernel patch for IBM Thinkpad trackpoint device

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:34:43PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 02:50:28AM +0100, Jaime wrote:
> 
> > I've read a couple of times on this mailing list that the kernel guys
> > would like to hear any reasons that users have for compiling their own
> > kernels (as it would be preferable if users didn't have to).
> > 
> > I use an IBM Thinkpad (T21) and I compile my own kernels in order to use
> > Stephen Evanchik's kernel patch to enable all the additional features
> > for the trackpoint pointing device. It's located here:
> > 
> > http://www.clarkson.edu/~evanchsa/software/kernel/patches/trackpoint-2.6.6.patch
> > 
> > I don't know whether it's possible, but could this patch be somehow
> > included in your distribution/kernel packages as standard?
> 
> Please file a report in Bugzilla with that URL, Severity: enhancement,
> Component: linux, and we will look into it and see if it is suitable.

Never mind; Daniel Stone just filed one:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124

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 - mdz