Re: Synaptics i2c touchscreen driver

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On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 12:58:38PM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote:
> Hi Dmitry, William,
> 
> On 9/14/2010 6:20 AM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > Hi William,
> > 
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 05:26:15PM -0700, William Manson wrote:
> >> Hi Abraham -
> >>
> >> Yes - the TM1217 is an RMI4 based module [I just got an email from a
> >> f/w engineer confirming it is indeed RMI4].
> >>
> >> We are currently working on submitting a new patch for our RMI4 based
> >> driver to add some functionality based on Dmitry Torokhov's request
> >> that we implement an RMI bus architecture. This is kind of a large
> >> change and we had hoped our current submission for our RMI4 driver
> >> would be added to the Kernel.org under a branch where every developer
> >> could access it and then we could add in the RMI bus architecture in a
> >> later patch. So it will take a while till we can make a new patch but
> >> I have no problem if you want to try the existing patch out.
> > 
> > I have committed the latest version of the patch Christopher sent (sans
> > defconfig and gta01 platform changes that do not really belong there) to
> > synaptics-rmi4 branch of my tree on kernel.org. I branched it off 2.6.35
> > release so it should be reasonably usable.
> 
> Why don't you submit to drivers/staging instead of creating branch at Dmitry's GIT tree?
> 
> You can probably attract more developers and you don't need to rebase to latest kernel 
> everytime.
> 

Since it is an input driver it is easier for me to apply patches to my
tree instead of routing through Greg. I intend to keep that ranch at
2.6.35 unless we have to rebase.

Thanks.

-- 
Dmitry
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