From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Trilok Soni Subject: Re: Synaptics i2c touchscreen driver Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:58:38 +0530 Message-ID: <4C8F2426.8040301@codeaurora.org> References: <27F9C60D11D683428E133F85D2BB4A530450B63EDD@dlee03.ent.ti.com> <7B4B50AC280A5E45A42CD2D364A3CE2F3A6BE70F9B@USW-EX2K7-1.synaptics-inc.local> <20100914005046.GA27540@core.coreip.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from wolverine01.qualcomm.com ([199.106.114.254]:34724 "EHLO wolverine01.qualcomm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752475Ab0INH2m (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Sep 2010 03:28:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100914005046.GA27540@core.coreip.homeip.net> Sender: linux-input-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: William Manson , "'Arce, Abraham'" , Greg KH , Christopher Heiny , Allie Xiong , "devel@driverdev.osuosl.org" , "linux-input@vger.kernel.org" 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. ---Trilok Soni -- Sent by a consultant of the Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum.