Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver"

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 09:50:20PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 06:00:40AM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 12:32:02PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> > > 2) most important - I do not have the hardware. So from the TODO list
> > > dual head and 2D acceleration support will be tough without actually
> > > checking on the hardware.
> > 
> > For a driver like this, if you don't have the hardware, I wouldn't
> > recommend taking on the task of trying to fix it up and become the
> > maintainer, sorry.
> ofcourse. that is the reason i mentioned in my mail that i do not have the hardware.
> I am trying to get a SM712 based display card.if i manage to get one i will mail you again.
> 
> thanks
> sudip

Hi Greg K-H,

I have spoken to Teddy Wang of Silicon Motion and he has agreed to give me a SM712 board. He will also be giving his guidance in the code. And we both will be the Maintainer of the code.

I will send you the patch to revert your commit after i have received the board from Teddy Wang and I have done my initial testing.

Just have a few questions, and I hope you can help me with them :-
1) do i need to have git server somewhere to send you pull request or i send you patches?
2) the tree on which i will be working that will be based on which tree : linux-next, staging-next or staging-testing?

I hope you will not mind if I ask for your suggestions whenever i get a doubt (which I will get many), after all i am still a newbie here.

thanks
sudip

> 
> > 
> > greg k-h