On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 04:41:44PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > 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? How is the history structured? Is it within a full kernel tree, or as a stand-alone driver? Usually we just want a "clean" driver in one patch, but if you have the full history, in the proper place, I would consider it. Have a pointer to it somewhere? thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
