From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt From: Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: Video Card to Lite5200 Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 01 Jul 2006 09:16:07 +1000." <1151709367.27137.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 11:15:07 +0200 Sender: wd@denx.de Message-Id: <20060701091507.EA1F4352681@atlas.denx.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev list , roger blofeld , linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , In message <1151709367.27137.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> you wrote: > > > I don;t know - the patches were submitted to this list a long time > > ago; we added them to our repository without any additional problems; > > see http://www.denx.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-denx.git > > Any reason why you keep that repository instead of submiting the patches > for proper upstream inclusion or to linuxppc-dev at least ? We submit patches every now and then, as time permits. My intention is to keep the differences between our tree and kernel.org minimal. But you know how this goes: just adding support for a new board means sending patches to the linuxppc_dev, mtd, i2c, usb, lm_sensors, ... mailing lists. Then you have to wait some time, then you resend. and you have to keep track of all these things. And the board support will not work before the last piece of the puzze has been accepted and merged and pushed upstream. All this takes a lot of effort and even more calendar time. We need a way to provide a solution to our customers fast - that's why we maintain our own development branch. I'd be happy if you could recommend a better approach to handle this. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd@denx.de The management question ... is not _whether_ to build a pilot system and throw it away. You _will_ do that. The only question is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to deliver the throwaway to customers. - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"