On Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:53:18 +0800 Raymond Lai <airwave209gt-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello world, > > I'm a OLPC XO-1 owner from HK. Out of boredom and fun I decided to > make this little green baby to run Ubuntu (OK, OK...), with the help > of various resources on the net, especially wiki.laptop.org. > > On the way of preparing the kernel, I wonder why the DCON driver (as > on http://git.infradead.org/geode.git) wasn't merged back to the > mainstream kernel tree? At the end, I did the changes on my own, and > I'm able to compile the kernel with DCON support added. It was waiting on CS5535 GPIO changes. Those changes are now upstream. > > I can submit a patch for such changes with the sources on kernel.org. > But a few questions... > > - Should I? Maybe. It could certainly live in the staging tree while we do cleanups, and while the OLPC folks do their XO-1.5 changes. Greg, what do you think? We have the full (git) history for the dcon driver; should I clean those up and provide a staging tree for you to pull from, or would you prefer the current driver w/out the history? > - According to MAINTAINERS I should post the patch here right? > - Which kernel version should I work with? > > I really hope DCON driver can be merged to the mainstream kernel > tree, so that some time in the future, people can hack on their own > using stock kernel sources from their distributions. > > First time here, hope you won't mind my words. :) > > Regards, > Raymond _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
