From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pali =?utf-8?q?Roh=C3=A1r?= Subject: Re: Canonical has own Ubuntu driver for ALPS 73 03 28 devices Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 19:47:58 +0200 Message-ID: <201606201947.58860@pali> References: <201606190143.46444@pali> <20160620173757.GB22426@dtor-ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7767297.iE3A2aoeYO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f48.google.com ([74.125.82.48]:38326 "EHLO mail-wm0-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756346AbcFTRsS (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:48:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160620173757.GB22426@dtor-ws> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: Anthony Wong , Christoph Hellwig , Ben Gamari , Hans de Goede , Allen Hung , Ben Morgan , Masaki Ota , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart7767297.iE3A2aoeYO Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday 20 June 2016 19:37:57 Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:29:41AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > > On 20 June 2016 at 18:20, Pali Roh=C3=A1r 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 > > > > > communicate with rest of world? Otherwise touchpads could > > > > > work out-of-box on non Ubuntu systems too with mainline > > > > > kernel. > > >=20 > > > 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-trivial. > >=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 benefit 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. >=20 > Why couldn't you guys send it upstream yourselves? =46or ALPS 73 03 28 touchpad it is probably too late now, see: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.input/49651 > > [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 =2D-=20 Pali Roh=C3=A1r pali.rohar@gmail.com --nextPart7767297.iE3A2aoeYO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEABECAAYFAldoLE4ACgkQi/DJPQPkQ1KllQCeJLuFSSLPPGZiQWitBgkjf8pj TlQAnR3kNR+dd9VU6wid9rZ50C6eQ0y6 =7suR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7767297.iE3A2aoeYO--