[hardy] patches revisited: sensor support for macbook air

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Fri Nov 7 13:44:19 UTC 2008


Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> Stefan Bader wrote:
>> Working through my work queues i stumbled over an old patch I had been
>> asked to add to Hardy which somehow got lost in the depths of directories.
>> By now there is a more complete version of this upstream, as well as
>> support for even some more models. The individual patches all are quite
>> simple and I think it might be worth to backport those as SRUs. Thoughts
>> on this?
>>
>> Stefan
>>
> 
> All for, of course. I sent a list of 8 patches in Intrepid to be replaced

Of course. ;-)

> by 9 patches upstream a little while ago. Since then, additional patches
> have appeared upstream. Is a LP# required for each patch to revert?
> 
> Henrik
> 
Personally I'd say for trivial reformatting patches, one LP# would be enough. 
Real bugfixes however separate, except those which go into a -stable update, 
which we try to handle in batches from -stable.
Tim, what do you say?

Stefan

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