From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1 2.6.24] fbdev: defio and Metronomefb v3 Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:35:21 -0800 Message-ID: <20080220053521.2dd66ad6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080218134125.5159.58386.sendpatchset@nxdomain.guide.opendns.com> <45a44e480802200518s21aeb938pd2375de44fc00b31@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.91] helo=mail.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1-new.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JRp81-0003jV-Pk for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:36:54 -0800 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]) by mail.sourceforge.net with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.44) id 1JRp80-0006rJ-AX for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 05:36:53 -0800 In-Reply-To: <45a44e480802200518s21aeb938pd2375de44fc00b31@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net To: Jaya Kumar Cc: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, Geert Uytterhoeven , adaplas@pol.net On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 08:18:35 -0500 "Jaya Kumar" wrote: > On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven > 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/