Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751965AbaAOKvY (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:51:24 -0500 Received: from kdh-gw.itdev.co.uk ([89.21.227.133]:13620 "EHLO hermes.kdh.itdev.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751468AbaAOKvU (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:51:20 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 396 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2014 05:51:20 EST Message-ID: <52D66699.8020309@itdev.co.uk> Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:44:41 +0000 From: Nick Dyer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yufeng Shen , Dmitry Torokhov CC: Henrik Rydberg , Daniel Kurtz , Joonyoung Shim , Alan Bowens , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Meerwald , Benson Leung , Olof Johansson , adlr@chromium.org Subject: Re: Atmel updates to atmel_mxt_ts touch controller driver - v6 References: <1372337366-9286-1-git-send-email-nick.dyer@itdev.co.uk> <20130718194739.GA559@polaris.bitmath.org> <520CFA0D.4090905@itdev.co.uk> <20130815160734.GB12196@core.coreip.homeip.net> <522F2590.1080103@itdev.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Yufeng Shen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Nick Dyer > wrote: >> Dmitry Torokhov wrote: >> > On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 04:55:57PM +0100, Nick Dyer wrote: >> >> rydberg@euromail.se 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? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/