linux-kernel - Re: Canonical has own Ubuntu driver for ALPS 73 03 28 devices

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 03:16:36 -0700
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	Pali Roh??r <pali.rohar@...il.com>
Cc:	Ben Gamari <ben@...rt-cactus.org>,
	Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
	Allen Hung <Allen_Hung@...l.com>,
	Ben Morgan <Ben_Morgan@...l.com>,
	Masaki Ota <masaki.ota@...alps.com>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Canonical has own Ubuntu driver for ALPS 73 03 28 devices

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 01:43:46AM +0200, Pali Roh??r wrote:
> I do not understand it... Why Canonical is hidden and don't communicate
> with rest of world? Otherwise touchpads could work out-of-box on non
> Ubuntu systems too with mainline kernel.

Because Canonical doesn't collaborate with the upstream community
in any meaninful way.  They've been a bad player since day 1 and will
always be.