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

From: Pali RohÃr
Date: Mon Jun 20 2016 - 06:21:01 EST


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...

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