Bug#334732: synaptics X driver support for powerpc laptops
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 07:23:58PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:04:45PM +0200, Luca Bigliardi wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:24 AM, Horms wrote:
> >
> > > Can anyone comment on the progression of these patches into upstream?
> >
> > AFAIK there's actually no progress, i sent a mail to INPUT and POWER MAC
> > maintainers (respectively Vojtech Pavlik and Benjamin Herrenschmidt),
> > but no one replied.
> >
> > > As a rule, only upstream accepted patches are put into Debian.
> >
> > I've read the policy in the wiki as mentioned above. I totally agree
> > with this!
> > I haven't thought about before reporting the bug, i'm sorry.
> >
> > I'm trying to send other messages to maintainers and also to lkml.
> > Help is appreciated :)
>
> Thanks, it sounds like you have done exactly the right thing.
> Unforunate that not much has happened.
>
> Svenl, is it possible for you to ping some PPC people?
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.
Generally, having people on lkml and such ignore patches is something which
makes me reconsider the "only upstream patches" policy :)
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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