On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@gmail.com> wrote:

On November 2, 2014 3:09:51 AM EST, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:

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At Sat, 01 Nov 2014 10:31:31 +0300, Matwey V. Kornilov wrote:

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01.11.2014 04:51, Atri Bhattacharya пишет:

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I can help with that: Kernel 3.17 enables my laptop's (Lenovo Flex

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touchpad to be recognised while 3.16 doesn't. This is an ALPS v7 device, which got added by way of this commit

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3... and so missed 3.16.x series. With 13.2, therefore, my touchpad does not work (it is recognised as PS/2 mouse and that is even worse!), but I upgraded to 3.17.1 from Kernel:Stable and it works now. This is not an exotic device either: most recent Lenovo laptops in the Yoga and Flex series come with this or a synaptic touchpad whose support also only got added to Kernel 3.17.

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Could you open the ticket in our bugzilla, the commit seems to able to be easily backported to 3.12 kernel.

It's no single commit but a large amount of commit series, so not that trivial. Look at the commits around the suggested one above.

Takashi

I'm not personally impacted by the decision, but it seems with factory/tumbleweed likely to have thousands of users testing the 3.17 kernel, upgrading kernels post release is a more realistic option than bin previous releases.

(As of summer 2014, factory was reported to have 6,000 users, announcing the factory/tumbleweed integration I assume will only increase that. We may know real numbers in a couple weeks.)

In this case it seems recent Lenovo laptop support is either going to take significant backporting or updating to 3.17.

Neither option seems good to me, but one of them is least bad. If that can be figured out then the answer will hopefully become obvious.

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I personally would have no issue with delaying 13.2 for two weeks or so to include 3.17.2 if this is possible. I have been using 3.17.2 from the kernel stable OBS repo with no issues but I do not need any proprietary firmware from ATI, NVIDIA, Broadcom etc so I am not a great test case. I am running 13.2 RC1 now and it is working well. It seems a little disappointing to release with out support for Lenovo hardware that is already on the market but 3.17 is relatively new and OBS is available for those who need it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org