Re: Status of RMI4 drivers?

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On 06/07/14 21:12, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 5, 2014 at 8:39 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 04:37:37PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>>> On Fri, 2014-07-04 at 21:48 +0300, Kristina Martšenko wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm going over some "older" drivers in the staging tree and wanted to
>>>> ask about cptm1217 and ste_rmi4. They've been in staging for three and a
>>>> half years now, waiting for the upstream Synaptics RMI4 drivers. From
>>>> what I understand, the RMI4 development is happening in the
>>>> synaptics-rmi4 branch of Dmitry's git tree. Does anyone have any idea
>>>> when the RMI4 code might be "ready" and get merged properly? How is that
>>>> going?
>>>
>>> I'd be quite happy to move cptm1217 out of staging, however its now been
>>> there so many years waiting the rumoured RMI4 driver that I don't have
>>> hardware to do any testing on it, so it would need to be a straight
>>> move.
>>
>> Kristina found a driver here:
>>         https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git/log/?h=synaptics-rmi4
>>
>> Dmitry, what's the status of ever getting that code merged into the
>> tree?
>>
> 
> I was supposed to uprev the driver to the latest kernel and start
> merging it, unfortunately last month and a half was quite a mess.
> Hopefully now I should have more time since I can do bunch of this
> work during normal hours.

Good to know, thanks. So what happens to the staging drivers once you
merge the driver? Will their devices be supported by the new driver or
will someone have to merge their functionality into the new driver (and
test it)?

Kristina
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