On Mon, 2014-11-03 at 07:26 +0100, Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Friday 31 of October 2014 18:51:35 Atri Bhattacharya wrote:
I can help with that: Kernel 3.17 enables my laptop's (Lenovo Flex 14) 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=3808843cf10e4a696d942359d99822eff1a2de8e 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.
IMHO we should clearly distinguish between maintenance and bugfixes on one side and features and HW enablement on the other.
Just to clarify, in this case, I was only responding to a specific question asked by David regarding what new HW support was added to Kernel 3.17 that was absent from 3.16, and not trying to influence the maintenance model of the openSUSE release kernel; I completely agree the kernel maintainers are definitely the best judge of that. -- Atri Bhattacharya Sun Nov 2 23:46:04 MST 2014 Sent from openSUSE 13.2 on my laptop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org