[Mageia-dev] Kernel 3.4.11 patched with Wacom Intuos 5 supported (wacom driver backported from 3.5.4)

[Jehan Pagès]

Hi Thomas,

we had this discussion earlier on dev list
(http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.devel/18602/focus=18623)
where you told me that there is plan to pass Mageia 2 from the 3.3.8
kernel (reaching end of life) to 3.4 branch.
I assumed you meant 3.4.11 which is currently the stable one.

And as the discussion was about backporting the support of the Wacom
Intuos 5 into 3.4 (on vanilla, support started on 3.5), I decided to
test the backport.
You will find on Bugzilla the ticket, with a patch here:
https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7659

I personally applied this patch on kernel.org 3.4.11 archive, compiled
a vanilla kernel and have been testing it on my desktop for the last
24 hours. Compiled fine. Up to now no unexpected kernel panic, or
whatever. And Intuos 5 worked on my Mageia 2 running this kernel.
Would it be possible to apply it in the spec file for kernel-desktop
(kernel-rt would be great too!)? That would be awesome and would make
Mageia the Linux distribution for professional graphists. :-)

I will obviously personally run daily the RPM with this patch to
ensure before finale release to be sure it does not make bad things,
and will report any issue. :-)
Thanks a lot.

Jehan