On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 01:29:41AM +0800, Anthony Wong wrote: > On 20 June 2016 at 18:20, Pali Rohár <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:43:46AM +0200, Pali Roh??r wrote: > > > > I do not understand it... Why Canonical is hidden and don't communicate > > > > with rest of world? Otherwise touchpads could work out-of-box on non > > > > Ubuntu systems too with mainline kernel. > > > > > > > It must be really frustrating for Ben and other people (me too) who in > > last months working on ALPS patches to support that touchpad as we know > > that Canonical already had some working code for that touchpad... > > Hi Pali, > > The fix in the DKMS package you referenced was not written by > Canonical but by ALPS, as it came from them I think it is reasonable > they send it to upstream, isn't it? As you can see the patch is non-trivial. > > After we got the patch from ALPS, we had follow-up conversation a few > times with our contacts at Taiwan and asked if they would upstream it, > but unfortunately to no avail. I am as desperate as you if the fix > cannot land in mainline, which means many Linux users will not benefit > from it. We also had opened this bug [1] for this particular issue, > there is nothing to hide. If there is any code written by us, we > happily submit them upstream.
Why couldn't you guys send it upstream yourselves? > > [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1571530 > > > On Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > Because Canonical doesn't collaborate with the upstream community > > > in any meaninful way. They've been a bad player since day 1 and will > > > always be. > > This reminded me of this old thread [2]. How hard is it to run this > command in your kernel git tree? > > $ git log --pretty=oneline --author=canonical > > [2] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-bluetooth/msg47286.html > > Thanks, > Anthony -- Dmitry
