RE: Synaptics i2c touchscreen driver

["Arce, Abraham" <x0066660@ti.com>]

Hi,

> From: William Manson [mailto:WManson@synaptics.com]
> 
> Dmitry -
> 
> Thanks - yes this will help very much.
> 
> > >
> > > Yes - the TM1217 is an RMI4 based module [I just got an email from a
> > > f/w engineer confirming it is indeed RMI4].
> > >
> > > We are currently working on submitting a new patch for our RMI4 based
> > > driver to add some functionality based on Dmitry Torokhov's request
> > > that we implement an RMI bus architecture. This is kind of a large
> > > change and we had hoped our current submission for our RMI4 driver
> > > would be added to the Kernel.org under a branch where every developer
> > > could access it and then we could add in the RMI bus architecture in a
> > > later patch. So it will take a while till we can make a new patch but
> > > I have no problem if you want to try the existing patch out.
> 
> I have committed the latest version of the patch Christopher sent (sans
> defconfig and gta01 platform changes that do not really belong there) to
> synaptics-rmi4 branch of my tree on kernel.org. I branched it off 2.6.35
> release so it should be reasonably usable.
> 
> I shall be accepting patches applicable to that branch and if other
> community players (Arce and others) will have time to work on the driver
> - that would be great.
> 

I'll give a try the synaptics-rmi4 branch...

Thanks William and Dmitry for the quick response!

Best Regards
Abraham