Re: Wacom USB driver patch

[Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>]

Dear Ping,

Vojtech posted your 2.6 patch to linux-kernel yesterday, so I examined it
(Subject: [PATCH 32/44] Update of Wacom driver from Ping Cheng (from Wacom)).
Unlike the 2.4 version, it does not feature a reset thread. Please tell
me why that thread was required in 2.4.

Or perhaps it was present in your original submission which I lost and
Vojtech removed that element of the patch?

Yours truly,
-- Pete

> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 14:29:04 -0800
> From: Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com>
> To: 'Vojtech Pavlik ' <vojtech@suse.cz>, 'Pete Zaitcev ' <zaitcev@redhat.com>
> Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org '" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> Subject: RE: Wacom USB driver patch
> 
>  <<wacom_2.4.patch>>
> The attached patch is against the latest versions of wacom.c and hid-core.c
> at  http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4.
> 
> Ping
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vojtech Pavlik
> To: Pete Zaitcev
> Cc: Ping Cheng; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: 2/13/04 12:13 AM
> Subject: Re: Wacom USB driver patch
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 07:28:09PM -0800, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 16:55:47 -0800
> > Ping Cheng <pingc@wacom.com> wrote:
> >
> > > The wacom.c at http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4 is way out of date and
> > > people are still working on/using 2.4 releases. Should I make a patch for
> > > 2.4?
> >
> > We plan to support 2.4 based releases for several years yet. If Vojtech
> > approves what you did for 2.6, I am all for a backport to Marcelo tree.
> > Marcelo is not very forthcoming with approvals these days, but perhaps
> > it may be folded into some update. But as usual I would like to avoid
> > carrying a patch in Red Hat tree, if at all possible.
> 
> Agreed. Same for us at SUSE.
> 
> -- 
> Vojtech Pavlik
> SuSE Labs, SuSE CR