[Meego-kernel] [PATCH 1/3] usb: add support for MHL-USB coexistence

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:27:31 +0800
"Wu, Hao" <hao.wu at intel.com> wrote:

> >On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 20:57:51 +0800
> >"Wu, Hao" <hao.wu at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> From 4599750d1c6fd11672d7f8182bd9443795911e22 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> >> 2001 From: Hao Wu <hao.wu at intel.com>
> >> Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:05:03 +0800
> >> Subject: [PATCH] usb: add support for MHL-USB coexistence
> >>
> >> MHL (Mobile High-Definition Link) shares the same port with USB OTG
> >> to connect mobile device to HDMI and MHL enabled external devices
> >
> >The MHL driver depends upon the PVR driver which is not upstream (as
> >it depends on a non-free user space to be usable), and not eligible
> >to be upstream so I don't see how this can go upstream either - its
> >dependent on non-free user space to be to usable or to be tested.
> 
> I add Bonnie and Philippe in this thread for comment, because I am
> not familiar with MHL/PVR user space. : )
> 
> In this case, will meego-kernel accept it as a specific feature due
> to customer needs?

Meego has the PVR driver and will I assume have the MHL driver, but
it's a Meego question and it means whoever puts it in Meego is going to
have to maintain it long term.