From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261612AbUCQRaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:30:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261655AbUCQRaN (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:30:13 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:13762 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261612AbUCQRaG (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Mar 2004 12:30:06 -0500 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 09:29:59 -0800 From: Pete Zaitcev To: pingc@wacom.com Cc: vojtech@suse.cz, zaitcev@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Wacom USB driver patch Message-Id: <20040317092959.5e00fab4.zaitcev@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Red Hat, Inc. X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 > To: 'Vojtech Pavlik ' , 'Pete Zaitcev ' > Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org '" > Subject: RE: Wacom USB driver 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 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 The wacom.c at http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4 is way out of date and 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