[PATCH 1/3] staging: olpc_dcon: add OLPC display controller (DCON) support

Greg KH gregkh at suse.de
Sat Sep 25 02:41:18 UTC 2010


On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 07:13:42PM -0700, Andres Salomon wrote:
> 
> This adds DCON support for the OLPC XO.  The DCON is found in XO-1 and
> XO-1.5 hardware.  The XO-1 has a CS5536 southbridge, while the XO-1.5
> has a Via chipset; the GPIO magic that's necessary to communicate with
> the DCON chip is unfortunately different across both platforms.  This
> driver supports both.
> 
> This driver is in bad state atm, so I'm requesting its inclusion into
> staging so it can be cleaned up while staying in the kernel tree.
> 
> Original driver by Dave Woodhouse, and modified extensively by
> Jordan Crouse, myself, Deepak Saxena, Paul Fox, Daniel Drake, and
> probably others that I've missed.

Looks great, but can you also send me a patch that adds a TODO file,
listing what needs to be done to the driver to get it merged into the
main portion of the tree, and who to contact about it?  See the other
TODO files for a format of what to do.

thanks,

greg k-h



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