On Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:57:33 +0200, Michael Melcher wrote:
Thank you, Johannes, for your Feedback.
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:49 PM, Johannes Thumshirn
wrote: Hi Michael,
On Donnerstag, 7. April 2016 16:31:11 CEST Michael Melcher wrote: [...]
FYI: 002_surfacepro4-button.patch went in via commit 6d5ac6e1771 in v4.5-rc1
True that. But that's the only one thus far. The Power and Volume buttons work with that Patch, but the Typing Cover doesn't.
I would like to ask these patches to be included in Kernel:HEAD to get openSUSE work on my SP4.
I don't think the patches are acceptible in openSUSE's kernel, as they do not indicate who authored them at all. There neither is a From: line nor a Signed- off-by: line, so I'm not shure if we're even allowed to include them in openSUSE.
I'll CC Alex (Maintainer of the GIT Repo). Perhaps he can tell us who wrote the patches originally can adjust them to be proper for inclusion. @Alex: I'm not sure you can reply to the list. If you can't you can either subscribe to the list or send your reply to me and I'll forward it to the list. In any way, your help is greatly appreciated :-)
In general, we have "upstream-first" policy, and we've been trying hard to reduce non-upstream patches. That said, the best route would be to submit the patches to upstream, then we backport them once when they are accepted. Otherwise wild patches may be a big PITA. Of course, people can help building unofficial patched kernels in OBS projects. This isn't difficult at all once when you know how to do it, and this alone should help a lot for testing. But merging to the common kernel tree needs higher criteria. And, of course, we're willing to help submitting to upstream. Feel free to ask for review on opensuse-kernel ML, or even reporting to Bugzilla would be a good start. But, don't forget to involve the relevant people, especially the original patch authors. Otherwise it won't work. HTH, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org