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On 09/07/2016 05:32 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> Trying to get on-topic: where organisations providing kernels like LSK
> (Linaro) can help is offering to integrate/maintain the SoC back-port
> while encouraging the SoC vendors to focus on developing against the
> latest upstream. It looks to me that on (too) many occasions SoC vendors
> take LSK as their development base for new SoC ports, making the
> forward-porting effort significantly larger (and potentially ignored).

W or w/o LSK, vendor are going to hang on android kernel which also base
on LTS. On the other side, this collaboration will save much of separate
work time, then give them more time on long term upstream work. I saw
this thing happens in linaro members.