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

[Khem Raj]

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 11:59 AM, Martin Jansa <martin.jansa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Does the patch cause any harm when used on newer kernel?
>
> If so shouldn't the patch be fixed to work correctly even with newer kernel?
>
> Or what's the main reason to remove it?
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 8:55 PM, Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> 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.

OE-core minimal kernel has been bumped to 4.4
so at this point I think its fine to remove it since there
is no reliable way for OE-Core to test out validity of
this patch