Re: Soft scrolling on framebuffer consoles - with GPM Handling - revised for kernel 6.18.28 (etc.)

Hello, Alexis.

On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 14:51:03 +1000, Alexis wrote:
> Ben Knoble <[email protected]> writes:

> > However, using /etc/portage/patches (or w/e the path is; on 
> > mobile) it should be possible to make use of the patch somewhat 
> > easy?

> You are indeed correct. :-) Here's the wiki page about it:

>   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/patches

That is not a well written page.  There is no coherent description of
how one specifies the version(s) of a package a patch should be applied
to.  Just some cryptic meta-specifications and a few vague examples.

The text ought to say what ranges of versions can be specified, and how
to do so.

The text specifically says "version(s)", so presumably there's some
syntax for specifying several versions.  But the examples only appear to
show one specific version each, or any version at all.

I would like to specify versions "6.18.n for n >= 26".  Is this
possible?  (I suspect not).  If so, how?  If not, what about "6.18.n for
any n"?

Is this documented anywhere?

Thanks!

> Alexis.

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