Greg KH wrote: >> +Wait for the official upstream synaptics rmi4 clearpad drivers as promised over the past few months >> +Merge any device support needed from this driver into it >> +Delete this driver > > Huh? > > Why not just add this driver to the kernel tree instead? When the > "promised" driver then eventually shows up (who is promising it?) then > delete the thing. Well, Alan (on behalf of Ramesh Agarwal) sent out a very similar patch (Titled "Synaptics TM1217 Touchscreen Controller driver") the other day, and OTOMH that was after discussions with Synaptics where they said they were working on a "real" driver (a rather complex RMI4 bus driver) and we believe they will fix that sooner or later. So, until sooner or later happens we thought we'd keep it in staging. If you prefer both Alan and we can probably submit our patches for inclusion in the proper place. A side effect may be that the Synaptics RMI4 people may have trouble to merge their driver into input/ since they may be requested to refactor the existing drivers to use it rather than merging new stuff, putting some burden on their shoulders. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
