Re: Touch Screen Drivers for Dialog da9052

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 01:38:44PM +0000, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On 02/26/10 12:36, Nitin Shah wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > We have developed Touch Screen (TSI) Drivers for Dialog da9052 Power
> > Management IC.
> > 
> > We have tested this driver on Samsung SMDK-6410 board. If any one
> > needs test application tor testing this driver, we will provide the
> > same which we have used for testing.
> > 
> > For more details about the attached drives please refer the README
> > file inside "da9052_drivers.zip".
> > 
> > We would like to incorporate this driver into Linux mainline kernel.
> > 
> > Please test the driver and provide your valuable comments and
> > feedback.
> > 
> > Thanks & Regards, Nitin Shah
> Hi Nitin,
> 
> Couple of initial points.  Please take a look at the guidance on
> Submitting patches in the Documentation directory of the linux
> kernel source tree. To get more eyes on code you need to make it
> as simple as possible for people to take a look!
> 
> To move this driver set towards merging, take a look at how the other
> da90xx chips are handled in the current kernel.  Given the chips have
> a lot of different functionality fitting into numerous corners of the
> kernel, that a given user may or may not want to use, they are implemented
> as multifunction devices (drivers/mfd) with children in a number of other
> subsystems.
> 
> Whilst the code you have sent is pretty clear and well commented etc, it
> is going to need a lot of changes to interface with the relevant kernel
> subsystems.
> 
> Perhaps this is one for staging? 

I'll take anything for staging, it just has to build and be
self-contained and have someone who is working on getting it merged to
the main kernel tree.

thanks,

greg k-h
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