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

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jun 2016 12:20:34 +0200
From:	Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@...il.com>
To:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
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 Monday 20 June 2016 03:16:36 Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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.

It must be really frustrating for Ben and other people (me too) who in
last months working on ALPS patches to support that touchpad as we know
that Canonical already had some working code for that touchpad...

-- 
Pali Rohár
pali.rohar@...il.com