For Developers: Submitting Patches

If you are developing support for new devices, please develop against upstream kernels first.

Patches in input-wacom may not find their way into upstream kernels. Once a device is supported upstream, feel free to submit patches for backported support to the [https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-input/ linux-input mailing list].

The input-wacom driver is available through git for developers to hack on. Before using it, you should install your distribution's git, autoconf, and automake tools. Afterwards, you may clone the repository as follows:

 git clone git://git.code.sf.net/p/linuxwacom/input-wacom linuxwacom-input-wacom
 cd linuxwacom-input-wacom

Patches to input-wacom which touch the 4.5/3.17 folders must be accepted to the Linux kernel first.

Submit them to [email protected] where they must be approved by Jiri Kosina before they can be (backported and) applied to input-wacom.

See also:

• http://nickdesaulniers.github.io/blog/2017/05/16/submitting-your-first-patch-to-the-linux-kernel-and-responding-to-feedback/
• http://elixir.free-electrons.com/linux/latest/source/Documentation/process
• https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch

This page is under construction September 2017