From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Canonical has own Ubuntu driver for ALPS 73 03 28 devices Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 10:37:57 -0700 Message-ID: <20160620173757.GB22426@dtor-ws> References: <201606190143.46444@pali> <20160620101636.GA23462@infradead.org> <20160620102034.GI29844@pali> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-pa0-f42.google.com ([209.85.220.42]:33247 "EHLO mail-pa0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752528AbcFTRjA (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:39:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Anthony Wong Cc: Pali =?iso-8859-1?Q?Roh=E1r?= , Christoph Hellwig , Ben Gamari , Hans de Goede , Allen Hung , Ben Morgan , Masaki Ota , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:29:41AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > On 20 June 2016 at 18:20, Pali Roh=E1r wrote: > > > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:43:46AM +0200, Pali Roh??r wrote: > > > > I do not understand it... Why Canonical is hidden and don't com= municate > > > > with rest of world? Otherwise touchpads could work out-of-box o= n non > > > > Ubuntu systems too with mainline kernel. > > > > > > > It must be really frustrating for Ben and other people (me too) who= in > > last months working on ALPS patches to support that touchpad as we = know > > that Canonical already had some working code for that touchpad... >=20 > Hi Pali, >=20 > The fix in the DKMS package you referenced was not written by > Canonical but by ALPS, as it came from them I think it is reasonable > they send it to upstream, isn't it? As you can see the patch is non-t= rivial. >=20 > After we got the patch from ALPS, we had follow-up conversation a few > times with our contacts at Taiwan and asked if they would upstream it= , > but unfortunately to no avail. I am as desperate as you if the fix > cannot land in mainline, which means many Linux users will not benefi= t > from it. We also had opened this bug [1] for this particular issue, > there is nothing to hide. If there is any code written by us, we > happily submit them upstream. Why couldn't you guys send it upstream yourselves? >=20 > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1571530 >=20 > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Because Canonical doesn't collaborate with the upstream community > > > in any meaninful way. They've been a bad player since day 1 and = will > > > always be. >=20 > This reminded me of this old thread [2]. How hard is it to run this > command in your kernel git tree? >=20 > $ git log --pretty=3Doneline --author=3Dcanonical >=20 > [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg47286.html >=20 > Thanks, > Anthony --=20 Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" = in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html