On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 05:08:39PM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > 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? Yes, please do. Thanks again for doing this, it is going to be great. I sent comments for the main driver, and will hold off the rest for the next round, then. Cheers, Henrik -- 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
