Hi Steve, See my answers below:
On Fri, Sep 06, 2013 at 10:47:58AM +0000, Steve Twiss wrote: > Hello, > > I am late into the discussion about the DA9063 driver because I missed > the e-mail thread around 24th July > (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/24/460) > so I only recently noticed that a DA9063 driver from Philipp Zabel > had been submitted and accepted to linux-next. > > I also noted that this driver was using a previous patch-set as its baseline; > sent by Krystian Garbaciak over a year ago. Given that this original > patch-set was not accepted, and the production of the DA9063 chip has > advanced since the last submission, we were holding off the final DA9063 > driver until later. > > As I discussed earlier in https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/6/28/170 I was in > the process of getting this driver ready for submission to the kernel. > > It is well understood that any early submission of our driver to the > community (around v3.6) meant that this sort of external driver development > could happen without any further input from Dialog. However, this driver: > > - is based on something that is a year old and now out of date; > - it cannot support the most recent mass-production release of DA9063 > silicon; > > Is it possible to remove this driver from linux-next so these issues > can be resolved by Dialog? Unfortunately it's too late for that. I sent a pull request to Linus with this driver included, so I expect it to hit Linus' tree anytime soon. That means that it will be part of the 3.12-rc1 release. The good news here is that we have about 8 weeks to modify it to match your recent development, before 3.12 is released. I would really prefer to modify the now existing driver and improve it, rather than revert it. Cheers, Samuel. > Regards, > Steve Twiss > -- Intel Open Source Technology Centre http://oss.intel.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
