From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753127AbbLJPzc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:55:32 -0500 Received: from tex.lwn.net ([70.33.254.29]:53126 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751399AbbLJPzb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:55:31 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 08:55:30 -0700 From: Jonathan Corbet To: Ting Wang Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Add support of MS Surface Message-ID: <20151210085530.470a67dc@lwn.net> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: LWN.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 10 Dec 2015 19:15:33 +0800 Ting Wang wrote: > I want to add the support of MS Surface.Now there are a patch: > https://github.com/neoreeps/surface-pro-3 I suspect there are people who would like to have that support, but, unfortunately, this is not the way to get it into the kernel. If you truly would like to contribute this work, could trouble to read Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel tree? A read through Documentation/development-process/ would also be helpful. Those will tell you how to get your work into the mainline. Thanks, jon