linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] input: Synaptics RMI4 Touchscreen Driver

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Message-ID: <50354F28.300@synaptics.com>
Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:29:12 -0700
From:	Christopher Heiny <cheiny@...aptics.com>
To:	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
CC:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Input <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
	Allie Xiong <axiong@...aptics.com>,
	William Manson <wmanson@...aptics.com>,
	Peichen Chang <peichen.chang@...aptics.com>,
	Joerie de Gram <j.de.gram@...il.com>,
	Wolfram Sang <w.sang@...gutronix.de>,
	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...ricsson.com>,
	Naveen Kumar Gaddipati <naveen.gaddipati@...ricsson.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] input: Synaptics RMI4 Touchscreen Driver

On 08/22/2012 05:50 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Christopher Heiny
> <cheiny@...aptics.com> wrote:
>
>> This patch implements a driver supporting Synaptics ClearPad and other
>> touchscreen sensors that use the RMI4 protocol, as defined here:
>
> Nice!
>
>> This patch is against the v2.6.38 tag of Linus' kernel tree, commit
>> 521cb40b0c44418a4fd36dc633f575813d59a43d.  This will be our last patch against
>> such an old kernel version, future patches will be against 3.x kernels.
>
> Please use the head of the subsystem tree to do this work.
> In this case, use Dmitry's git.
>
> Currently I just cannot test this because we have no such old codebase
> around.

Yeah, we've been in a bind in that regard, mostly due to customer 
requirements to support Android Gingerbread.  At least we were able to 
drop Froyo support this time around. :-P

Going forward, though, we'll be tracking much newer kernels for our 
development, and hopefully getting patches out more frequently as well.


> But I will attempt to review the patch set!

Thanks!  We look forward to your input.

					Chris
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