On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 09:08:01PM -0600, Chris Bagwell wrote: > Have you guys developed a strategy for porting updates in linuxwacom's > xdrv over to xf86-input-wacom? Will the main developers occasionally > do that? Will it help to provide a single patch porting, for example, > the updates from the -10 release over to git master?
This is a bit of a sore point, with both xf86-input-wacom and linuxwacom still being in rather active development. I hope that by the time most distros switch to xf86-input-wacom, the effort needed is simply backporting, not synching. Unfortunately, I've been rather tied up lately with other stuff and didn't have the time needed to spend on xf86-input-wacom. > The improvements Ping made to Jason's bamboo patches during commit to > CVS make my original direct port of Jason's patches to > xf86-input-wacom bamboo branch no longer match up exactly (especially > for gestures) and I do recommend aligning with these improvements > somehow. I can either provide a small-ish patch to bamboo branch to > make that branch become aligned to linuxwacom or I can provide a > single patch against master branch doing a direct port from linuxwacom > (in which case the bamboo branch becomes unneeded). But these two > versions of alignment patches will not be able to describe in much > details what they are trying to do other then "aligning with > linuxwacom". > > I'm hoping to avoid needing to decompose the changes from 0.8.5-9 and > 0.8.5-10 into mini patches in port over to xf86-input-wacom. this is also one of the reason I'm pushing for small changes only, it's a lot easier to apply multiple patches than it is to apply parts of a patch. How large would the diff be against your bamboo branch? If it's just a limited number of changes that can be (ideally) explained why, then it's easier to just apply it to the bamboo branch and merge that branch in once it's ready (what's the current status btw, I lost track of it like of pretty much everything lately). If in doubt, the smaller the patch the better... Cheers, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Linuxwacom-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxwacom-devel
