Bug#334732: synaptics X driver support for powerpc laptops
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 01:24 PM, Sven Luther wrote:
> I pinged benh, but he is busy fixing some ppc SMP issue right now, so didn't
> put much attention. I still feel that this should be more related to the INPUT
> folk than the powerpc side though.
I'll try with input mailing list.
> Generally, having people on lkml and such ignore patches is something which
> makes me reconsider the "only upstream patches" policy :)
Well, it's not up to me to decide, but i think the current policy is good.
Maybe you can provide a pkg like linux-debian-patches-nonmainstream-X.Y.Z
(and respective image/source/headers/whatever packages) as an alternative
to the official kernel. This should be good enought for people that cannot
appreciate the beauty of a distribution with vanilla kernels.
luca
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