On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 01:46:51AM +0200, ext Andrew de Quincey wrote: > Hi, I've just discovered that the patch at: > > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tmlind/linux-omap-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3eae3ea7c443fc4330574dffea65b6f2f53a2574 > > Breaks the nokia770's framebuffer as it removes the platform data for > the HWA742 LCD controller. > > As the patch says "Patches against the mainline tree are welcome to > add back the missing functionality if needed!", I'm happy to do this. > > However, since I'm fairly new to the linux-omap project, is simply > extracting the removed nokia770 code and generating a patch against > the mainline kernel sufficient? or is there a newer style of some sort > that should be adopted for this? You can start by generating the new patch against mainline and running scripts/checkpatch.pl, then you should probably find out if there are any API changes and stuff like that. Then send the patch to lkml ccing linux-omap and let's see what comments do you get from those guys :-) -- balbi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
