For Developers: Submitting Patches

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

Developing

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 https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom.git
 cd linuxwacom-input-wacom

Submitting

Patches to input-wacom have no guarantee of being accepted into upstream kernels. Thus, patches to input-wacom which touch the 4.5/3.17 folders must be accepted to the Linux kernel first.

To do this, submit them to linux-input@vger.kernel.org where they must be approved by Jiri Kosina. After Jiri accepts them into one of his trees, they can be (backported and) applied to input-wacom.

Resources for submitting upstream patches

• 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

input-wacom (backport) support

Once a device is supported upstream, feel free to submit patches for backported support to the the linuxwacom-devel mailing list