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[cyberdork33 <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Adam. That one was a real bugger that was preventing people  
from having working hardware. I appreciated it (and I am sure there  
are others who do as well).

On May 10, 2009, at 4:04 PM, adamhorden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> applesmc and hid-applesmc are now updated to Januty and uploaded to  
> the
> PPA. I tested these packages before I uploaded them. There are a few
> other packages I would like to clean up but for now we have a working
> set of packages for Januty.
>
> Adam
>
> cyberdork33 wrote:
> > No problem. Thanks for your help!
> >
> > On May 8, 2009, at 12:12 PM, adamhorden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > I will push all my updated packages this weekend into the PPA with
> > > the correct versions for the mactel-ppa. I am a first year EEE
> > > student at the moment so I have been right in the middle of exams  
> > > and
> > > coursework so I have not had much time to work on Open Source
> > > projects, but I will push those packages this weekend.
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > > cyberdork33 wrote:
> > > > Adam,
> > > >
> > > > Can you put your hal-applesmc package in the mactel ppa?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mar 21, 2009, at 10:00 AM, adamhorden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > So the dependancy has been removed for the package bcm5974, but is
> > > > > this still required for other series such as Intrepid? If this is
> > > > > the case we still need to depend on usbhid for Intrepid?
> > > > >
> > > > > I really should stick the new packages I created in the PPA!
> > > > >
> > > > > Adam
> > > > >
> > > > > Henrik Rydberg wrote:
> > > > > > cyberdork33 wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Someone today said that bcm5974-dkms depends on usbhid-dkms, and
> > > > > > > someone
> > > > > > > here has already said that that package was not needed anymore  
> > > > > > > on
> > > > > > > jaunty. Can someone look into that?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > After much testing, the conclusion is that there no longer is any
> > > > > > point
> > > > > > for bcm5974 to depend on usbhid or any other external dkms
> > > > > > package. Here
> > > > > > is an excerpt from the git log of the just uploaded version:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > commit 9ef004eb41fe5e2b087d61b00e3963fad97e6332
> > > > > > Author: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > Date:   Thu Mar 19 02:19:24 2009 +0100
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Removed dependency on usbhid
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  In 2.6.28, the only additional configuration needed is for the  
> > > > > > new
> > > > > >  macbooks using the wellspring3 device. The configuration is  
> > > > > > already
> > > > > >  upstream, in a stalled commit ac26fca3 which is in hid-core, not
> > > > > >  usbhid. Since jaunty comes with hid built in, there is no need  
> > > > > > or
> > > > > >  possibility to use dkms for the configuration, but one must  
> > > > > > resort
> > > > > >  to other methods.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >  Signed-off-by: Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The "other method" could possibly be to specify a hid quirk
> > > > > > on the boot line somehow, or to use some dynamic parameter  
> > > > > > scheme.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Henrik
> > > > >
> > > > >
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