From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dmitry Torokhov Subject: Re: Synaptics i2c touchscreen driver Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:48:50 -0700 Message-ID: <20100914074850.GA15167@core.coreip.homeip.net> References: <27F9C60D11D683428E133F85D2BB4A530450B63EDD@dlee03.ent.ti.com> <7B4B50AC280A5E45A42CD2D364A3CE2F3A6BE70F9B@USW-EX2K7-1.synaptics-inc.local> <20100914005046.GA27540@core.coreip.homeip.net> <4C8F2426.8040301@codeaurora.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:45089 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752065Ab0INHs4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:48:56 -0400 Received: by pxi10 with SMTP id 10so2375176pxi.19 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C8F2426.8040301@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Trilok Soni Cc: William Manson , "'Arce, Abraham'" , Greg KH , Christopher Heiny , Allie Xiong , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:58:38PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote: > Hi Dmitry, William, > > On 9/14/2010 6:20 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > Hi William, > > > > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:26:15PM -0700, William Manson wrote: > >> Hi Abraham - > >> > >> Yes - the TM1217 is an RMI4 based module [I just got an email from a > >> f/w engineer confirming it is indeed RMI4]. > >> > >> We are currently working on submitting a new patch for our RMI4 based > >> driver to add some functionality based on Dmitry Torokhov's request > >> that we implement an RMI bus architecture. This is kind of a large > >> change and we had hoped our current submission for our RMI4 driver > >> would be added to the Kernel.org under a branch where every developer > >> could access it and then we could add in the RMI bus architecture in a > >> later patch. So it will take a while till we can make a new patch but > >> I have no problem if you want to try the existing patch out. > > > > I have committed the latest version of the patch Christopher sent (sans > > defconfig and gta01 platform changes that do not really belong there) to > > synaptics-rmi4 branch of my tree on kernel.org. I branched it off 2.6.35 > > release so it should be reasonably usable. > > Why don't you submit to drivers/staging instead of creating branch at Dmitry's GIT tree? > > You can probably attract more developers and you don't need to rebase to latest kernel > everytime. > Since it is an input driver it is easier for me to apply patches to my tree instead of routing through Greg. I intend to keep that ranch at 2.6.35 unless we have to rebase. Thanks. -- Dmitry