Re: Atmel updates to atmel_mxt_ts touch controller driver - v6

[Nick Dyer]

Yufeng Shen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Nick Dyer <nick.dyer@xxxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:nick.dyer@xxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>> Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote:
>> >> rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rydberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >>> First: thanks for the patches and you work on this driver.
>> >>
>> >> Thank you for your time in looking at these changes.
>> >>
>> >>> Now, I don't swear much, but I would like to emphasize line 161 of
>> >>> Documentation/SubmittingPatches:
>> >>>
>> >>> **Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing
> lists!!!***
>> >>>
>> >>> One reason that should be obvious by now is that your work will be
>> >>> attended to much quicker. One may think that it is more efficient to
>> >>> send the whole backlog at once, but in fact, the time it takes to get
>> >>> a patchset accepted is inversely proportional to the length of the
>> >>> patchset. So please, keep it small and simple next time,
>> >>
>> >> Apologies. I will split this lot up into several smaller series of
> patches.
>> >
>> > Wait, I am in the process of applying it actually...
>>
>> I wonder, have you made any progress with this? Is there any way I can
>> assist?
>
> Hey Dimitry,
> 
> What's the status on this ?
> 
> I noticed that at  /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input, branch
> atmel-mxt-ts has part of Nick's patches applied
> but not all. The upstream tree and Nick's tree
>  https://github.com/ndyer/linux/commits/for-next are still
> significantly diverged.
> 
> I am wondering any plan on your side to apply more patches that sent out by
> Nick ?
> 
> We (Chromium authors) are planning on bringing our local tree of atmel
> driver to be as close as possible to
> upstream and trying to figure out what's the best tree to rebase against.

I was considering picking up the patches that Dimitry has already reviewed
and rebasing them against the current mainline to try and get things moving
again - would that be useful?
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