From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752680AbaLAHC3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 02:02:29 -0500 Received: from mail-pd0-f180.google.com ([209.85.192.180]:53180 "EHLO mail-pd0-f180.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752426AbaLAHC2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Dec 2014 02:02:28 -0500 Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 12:32:13 +0530 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, LKML , Steven Rostedt , Markos Chandras , Ben Hutchings , Teddy Wang Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "staging: sm7xxfb: remove driver" Message-ID: <20141201070213.GA4720@sudip-PC> References: <20141120170925.5a435436@gandalf.local.home> <20141120232329.GA27669@kroah.com> <20141122070202.GB4490@sudip-PC> <20141122140040.GA28422@kroah.com> <20141122162020.GA10957@sudip-PC> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20141122162020.GA10957@sudip-PC> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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