Hi Ronald,
This changeset adds a driver for the SPI keyboard and trackpad on recent
MacBook's and MacBook Pro's. The driver has seen a fair amount of use
over the last 2 years (basically anybody running linux on these
machines), with only relatively small changes in the last year or so.
For those interested, the driver development has been hosted at
https://github.com/cb22/macbook12-spi-driver/ (as well as my clone at
https://github.com/roadrunner2/macbook12-spi-driver/).
The first patch is just a placeholder for now and is provided in case
somebody wants to compile the driver while it's being reviewed here; the
real patch has been submitted to dri-devel and is being discussed there,
with the intent/hope that I can get an Ack and permission to merge it
through the input subsystem tree here as part of this patch series.
Great to see this upstream. The patch obviously has a lot in common with
the previous keyboard and touchpad drivers; foremost this is a change of
transport protocol and not functionality. That said, the code is compact
and clear enough to make it hard to motivate any major effort to share
more of existing code, at least initially. Barring detailed comments
that are likely to produce new revisions, this looks like really good work.
Thanks,
Henrik
