[APPLIED] Re: [Maverick] [pull request] Input: i8042 - reset keyboard controller wehen resuming from S2R

[Leann Ogasawara]

On Fri, 2010-09-10 at 07:12 +0200, Jerome Lacoste wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 5:40 AM, Leann Ogasawara
> <leann.ogasawara at canonical.com> wrote:
> > Applied to Maverick linux master.  Jerome, this would also seem to be an
> > appropriate candidate for the upstream stable kernels.  Care to forward
> > this along there as well?  For information on submitting patches to
> > upstream stable, refer to:
> >
> > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob_plain;f=Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt;hb=HEAD
> 
> I can try to get it merged into the stable tree. Do you really think
> it passes the 'that's not good' rule ?
> 
>   "It must fix a problem that causes a build error (but not for things
>    marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real
>    security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue.  In short, something
>    critical."
> 
> Is the inability to resume properly a critical issue from a kernel POV ?

In my opinion a patch to resolve inoperable touchpads after suspend to
RAM qualifies.  The worst that could happen is it doesn't get accepted,
at which point at least we tried.

Thanks,
Leann