Synaptics i2c touchscreen driver

Trilok Soni tsoni at codeaurora.org
Tue Sep 14 07:28:38 UTC 2010


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.

---Trilok Soni

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