On 8/26/11 2:12 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On Friday 26 August 2011 07:14:07 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>> On 8/25/11 9:18 AM, Jonas Gorski wrote:
>>> On 25 August 2011 17:58, Philip Prindeville
>>>
>>> <philipp_s...@redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>>>> On 8/25/11 2:38 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>>>>> On Monday 22 August 2011 00:14:43 Philip Prindeville wrote:
>>>>>> Add support for Ed Wildgoose's alix platform driver plus my
>>>>>> enhancement to add GPIO soft button support.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Redux: fix parameters for gpio_keys, add hotplug button script.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Philip Prindeville <phil...@redfish-solutions.com>
>>>>> Applied both patches in r28081 since it did not really make sense to
>>>>> have them separated.
>>>>>
>>>>> I assumed that for maintenance reasons, you had both patches splitted,
>>>>> though patching a patch is usually not the right thing to do.
>>>> Thanks.
>>>>
>>>> The reason was I wanted to have the upstream files be separate from my
>>>> patch which isn't yet upstreamed.
>>> Hrm, I'm a bit confused about these patches:
>>>
>>> 1. Why are they in generic if they are actually x86-specific patches?
>>> 2. Why are they only in patches-2.6.39, if the patches were accepted
>>> in 3.2? 3.0 and 3.1 will need it, too.
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jonas
>> Well, since getting the x86 default kernel version bumped is next to
>> impossible, porting it to higher versions seemed like a moot point.
> Which is no longer true, since I applied your patch to get it bumped to 
> 2.6.39.4. As Jonas says, usually when you need a patch for 2.6.39 which is 
> not 
> in 3.0 nor in 3.1, just would need to provide 3 copies of it.

I'll try to get that done this weekend.

-Philip

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