[OE-core] EXT: Re: [PATCH] libinput: remove obsolete touchpad patch

[Mark Hatle]

On 8/25/17 1:48 PM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 12:09 AM, Jose Alarcon <jose.alarcon at ge.com> wrote:
>> On 24.08.2017 20:45, Andre McCurdy wrote:
>>> On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:37 PM, Jose Alarcon <jose.alarcon at ge.com> wrote:
>>>> This patch was a temporal workaround needed with 4.1 kernels.
>>>> Remove it.
>>> OLDEST_KERNEL is still set to 3.2.0
>>>
>>> How can you be sure nobody is using 4.1 ?
>>
>> That's a good point!
>>
>> I didn't know about this variable. I believe we should not integrate
>> this change.
>> I will resend it once OLDEST_KERNEL is set to 4.2 or bigger.
> 
> The original patch has been merged to master so a second patch will be
> needed to revert it.
> 

It may make sense to selectively apply the patch based on what OLDEST_KERNEL is
set to.

This way if a user or distribution sets a newer 'OLDEST_KERNEL', that item can
be removed automatically.

--Mark