Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755891AbdLTRIN (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:08:13 -0500 Received: from mail.ltec.ch ([95.143.48.181]:48928 "EHLO mail.ltec.ch" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754353AbdLTRIK (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:08:10 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 1957 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2017 12:08:09 EST Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add support for ORISE OTM3225A LCD SoC To: Daniel Thompson Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, lee.jones@linaro.org, jingoohan1@gmail.com, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1509714581-4065-1-git-send-email-fb@ltec.ch> <20171220165736.e247aggbkl4qir23@oak.lan> From: Felix Brack Message-ID: Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2017 18:08:01 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20171220165736.e247aggbkl4qir23@oak.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 39 Hi Daniel, On 20.12.2017 17:57, Daniel Thompson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 05:35:24PM +0100, Felix Brack wrote: >> Just a gentle echo request ;-) >> Is there something completely wrong with this patch or am I just too >> impatient? >> >> regards Felix >> >> On 03.11.2017 14:09, Felix Brack wrote: >>> This patch adds a LCD driver supporting the OTM3225A LCD SoC >>> from ORISE Technology. This device can drive TFT LC panels having a >>> resolution of 240x320 pixels. After initializing the OTM3225A using >>> it's SPI interface it switches to use 16-bib RGB as external >>> display interface. > > Was this a backlight driver? I've just noticed all the backlight > maintainers on Cc: but the subject doesn't make this obvious and even > with you quoting the patch header I still can't be entirely sure! > Yes it is a backlight driver. Sorry for not quoting the entire message. > As a result I think its very likely the patch simply got overlooked > because it didn't look much like a backlight driver when filtering > e-mail. Patches that can't be easily categorized from the subject > line will often get overlooked. > > So, asssuming this was a backlight driver, could you resend the patch > with an updated description and a subject line commenting: > [PATCH] backlight: otm3225a: > Okay, I will. > > Daniel. > regards Felix