On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 4:09 PM, Eduard Hasenleithner <[email protected]>wrote:
> 2011/3/23 Ping Cheng <[email protected]>:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Eduard Hasenleithner <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> >> Now I even tested the linuxwacom/src/2.6.30 driver on a fresh
> >> linux-2.6.38 from kernel.org. I had to do a few minor modifications to
> >> the driver source (ioctl has been renamed to unlocked_ioctl in
> >> usb_device and input->abs is missing) but it works perfectly!
> >> Apparently the driver did not diverge too much from the current
> >> kernel.
> >
> > If you can make a patchset against the latest Dmitry's input tree and
> submit
> > it to linux-input mailing list for review, I will backport the support to
> > input-wacom (after your patchset is accepted by linux-input).
>
> Do I get this correctly, the main wacom kernel driver development is
> not done in the linuxwacom tree, but directly in the linux kernel? And the
contents of linuxwacom are just backports?
That is what Peter has suggested :).
> I got the wrong impression that it is the other way around, because
> linuxwacom
> contains the OLED patch and the kernel doesn't.
>
It used to have only one maintainer, which is me, who has no time to
review/test all patches submitted. So, I rely on the community to test
patches, including my own patches, before submitting them to linux-input.
> Oh boy, when starting to develop the patch for xf86-input-wacom, I did
> not expect having to deal with the kernel driver too. At least not to
> such a large extend.
>
Your potential will be fully utilized ;).
> Before submitting a patch to dmitry I will make my mind up if the
> patch can be sent "as is", or if I do a bit of further modifications.
> Considering that we have a need for "event device IOCTL tunneling", it
> might be worth giving a try to submit a patch for this too. Well, and
> I have to perform a bit of spare time rearrangement ;)
>
> Is the following correct?
> * dmitry's tree: git://
> git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git
> * linux-input mailing list:
> http://vger.kernel.org/vger-lists.html#linux-input
Both are right (the actual email address is: [email protected]).
Another question: what is "input-wacom"? I cannot find it.
>
It contains the backported kernel drivers that suppose to go with
xf86-input-wacom:
http://linuxwacom.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linuxwacom/input-wacom;a=summaryand
http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxwacom/files/xf86-input-wacom/input-wacom
.
Happy hacking.
Ping
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