For Developers: input wacom development process

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 input-wacom

Please see Making Patches for general patch format.

Submitting Upstream

We try to keep the 4.5 and 3.17 drivers as close to upstream as possible. Therefore, 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 [email protected] where they must be approved by Jiri Kosina or Benjamin Tissoires. After Jiri or Benjamin accepts them into one of thier 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 and backport support

Once a device is supported upstream, feel free to submit patches for backported support using pull requests on Github. Please see Submitting Patches for the linuxwacom project's guidelines for the submission process.