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Hello Gentoo devs,

I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad and want to use its capability of
detecting movements and parking the harddisk's head for data security.

In order to get this working it's necessary to apply a kernel patch
manually. The following link leads to a How-To from ThinkWiki which
explains these steps in detail.

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to...iling_a_kernel


I am asking if you are willing to include this patch in the official
gentoo-sources. Gentoo's Portage is very useful and I guess many
ThinkPad users would like to use it for easily setting up their
ThinkPad's security capabilities.


Comments requested

Daniel Böhmer, Germany

boehmerdaniel@web.de wrote:

> Hello Gentoo devs,
>
> I am using a Lenovo ThinkPad and want to use its capability of
> detecting movements and parking the harddisk's head for data security.
>
> In order to get this working it's necessary to apply a kernel patch
> manually. The following link leads to a How-To from ThinkWiki which
> explains these steps in detail.
>
>
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to...iling_a_kernel
>
>
> I am asking if you are willing to include this patch in the official
> gentoo-sources. Gentoo's Portage is very useful and I guess many
> ThinkPad users would like to use it for easily setting up their
> ThinkPad's security capabilities.

Just a FYI... I have seen the Gentoo developers _post_ messages to this
newsgroup regarding Gentoo-related announcements, but I've never actually
seen any of them participating in any discussion here or providing a
solution to users with problems. For as far as I know, this newsgroup is
occupied by Gentoo *users,* not by Gentoo developers.

Thus, I think you'd have better success trying to contact the developers
through the channels mentioned on the Gentoo website...

Hope this was helpful... ;-)

--
Aragorn
(registered GNU/Linux user #223157)

Aragorn <aragorn@chatfactory.invalid> wrote:
>
> Just a FYI... I have seen the Gentoo developers _post_ messages to
> this newsgroup regarding Gentoo-related announcements, but I've never
> actually seen any of them participating in any discussion here or
> providing a solution to users with problems. For as far as I know,
> this newsgroup is occupied by Gentoo *users,* not by Gentoo
> developers.
>
> Thus, I think you'd have better success trying to contact the
> developers through the channels mentioned on the Gentoo website...
>
> Hope this was helpful... ;-)

These days, I believe most Gentoo developers are too /young/ to have heard
of or care about Usenet. The Elite generation was replaced by the Doom
generation, which in turn have now been replaced with the World of Warcraft
generation.
For better and for worse.

Regards,
--
*Art

Hello,

> These days, I believe most Gentoo developers are too /young/ to have heard
> of or care about Usenet.

Thank you for answering.

I am wondering if I am too old but I suppose I am just some strange
person that cares about the Usenet with the age of 19.

Following a hint from the channels I have just filed a bug to
bugs.gentoo.org (212905). If you're interested in this topic follow
the discussion there.


Greetings
Daniel Böhmer