Request for a kernel patch for IBM Thinkpad trackpoint device

[Nathaniel McCallum]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 02:50 +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?

While we are in deep freeze as other's have mentioned, that patch looks
pretty sane.  You may want to encourage the author to submit the patch
upstream from inclusion in newer kernels.  That would have great benefit
for everyone :).

Nathaniel