2012/3/3 Justin M. Forbes <jforbes@xxxxxxxxxx>: > On Sat, 2012-03-03 at 19:31 +0100, Joshua C. wrote: >> 2012/3/3 Josh Boyer <jwboyer@xxxxxxxxx>: >> > On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 9:41 AM, Joshua C. <joshuacov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Can some, please, apply the following patch to the fedora kernel? >> >> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=133072333922354&w=2 . It sets the >> >> NumLock state on the keyboard according to the data in the bios. >> > >> > It'll got into F17/rawhide when it makes it into Linus' tree. If you >> > get it into the >> > stable release, it will wind up in F15/F16 relatively soon. >> > >> > That should be sufficient, shouldn't it? At the least I'd like to >> > wait for it to wind >> > up in Linus' tree. >> > >> > josh >> >> This could take ages, couldn't it? You know that I have absolutely no >> influence what goes and when into his tree. In that case I could have >> saved myself writing this (and the first) email! > > I don't know about ages, the patch has been acked, and looks likely to > make the 3.4 merge window. I does seem rather low risk, but it is more > a feature than a bug fix at this point, and might have some difficulty > making it into the stable series. The functionality it provides is nice > to have, but not something that is critical for us to pick up in the > Fedora tree before it makes upstream. This isn't to say that we don't > like the patch, or don't agree with it. Simply that we certainly prefer > that features go through upstream first. > > Justin > I see _______________________________________________ kernel mailing list kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kernel
