Re: Linux v2.6.12-rc6

Pavel Machek
2005-06-06T19:32:10Z

Hi!

> It's being uploaded right now, the git tree is already up-to-date, and by
> the time this hits the mailing list the mirroring of the tar-ball will
> hopefully be done too.
>
> And since Jeff wrote me a shortlog script for git, the easist way to tell
> what's new since -rc5 is to just do the shortlog and diffstat output.
> Network drivers, USB and CPU-freq stand out.
>
> And the good news is that people do seem to have taken my rumblings about
> calming down for 2.6.12 seriously. Let's hope that pans out, and I can
> release that one asap.. But give this a good beating first, and holler
> (again, if you must) about any issues you have,

> Pavel Machek:
> fix jumpy mouse cursor on console

This one was from Dmitry, and git logs know that:

author Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Fri, 27 May 2005 12:53:03 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat, 28 May 2005 11:14:01 -0700

[PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console

Do not send empty events to gpm. (Keyboards are assumed to have scroll
wheel these days, that makes them part-mouse. That means typing on
keyboard generates empty mouse events).

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

...perhaps shortlog script needs some updating?
Pavel