On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > The point is that currently we have users that want to have a proper >> > support for their device (PixCir, Cypress TrueTouch and GeneralTouch), >> > and it's a shame to ask them to wait for 3 more months. > > That is understandable, but for the future, please bear in mind that > submitting patches in the merge window is the worst possible time > within that three-month period. > >> > Maybe a solution would be to make what we can here during this merge >> > window to add support for at least the new devices. Then, in 2.6.39 >> > and above, we could still migrate other devices, and eventually modify >> > some lines in the code. >> > >> > Jiri, Dmitry, what do you think? >> >> I still have to go through the patchset, my backlog has grown very badly >> recently, sorry. >> >> In case the patchset doesn't impose danger of regressions for already >> existing devices, we could merge this new 'unified' driver only for newly >> supported devices, and finish the unification in 2.6.39. > > Sounds reasonable. Thanks Henrik and Jiri. Do you want me to send a new patchset with only the new devices? Benjamin -- 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
