Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.24] fbdev: defio and Metronomefb v3

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:18:35 -0500 "Jaya Kumar" <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven
> <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Jaya Kumar wrote:
> >  > This patch implements support for the E-Ink Metronome controller. It
> >  > provides an mmapable interface to the controller using defio support.
> >  >
> >  > I welcome your feedback. Please let me know if it looks okay to apply.
> >
> >  To me it looks OK.
> >
> 
> Thanks Geert.
> 
> I have a follow-up question on the next steps of getting this merged.
> I saw Stephen Rothwell's announcement of a new tree called linux-next.
> [ http://lwn.net/Articles/268881/ ] He also said:
> "
>   otoh, a lot of the -mm queue is _not_ cross-subsystem: fbdev, uml, various
>   new drivers and features, etc.  So I'll need to split -mm into multiple
>   queues and feed many of them into linux-next.
> "
> I have not understood this. Does this mean that this type of patch,
> ie: a new fbdev driver, should aim towards merging into akpm's -mm
> tree? or that there needs to be a fbdev subsystem git tree that
> Stephen can pull from into linux-next?
> 

It means that at some stage I'd like linux-next to incorporate some patches
from the -mm queue, that's all.

I'll continue to collect fbdev patches.

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