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

Tue Oct 2 19:54:10 CEST 2012

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
+