From: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>
To: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org
Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:27:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011091427.59850.florian@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimMpGiEHgx03k22wiH-1uzAL-KJm3GADe4bBF_J@mail.gmail.com>
On Monday 08 November 2010 00:09:33 Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:44:48PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >> > [...]
> >>
> >> Just a small comment to say that Android is not the only one (but
> >> certainly the most visible, and thus easiest to bash on) not making
> >> effort to get their stuff in mainline. OpenWRT people are also
> >> maintaining their fork of the kernel, without even using git, and not
> >> contributing much to mainline (I'm certainly mistaken on that last
> >> comment).
> >
> > Isn't the openwrt stuff just drivers and some arch specific code?
> > Nothing that is core infrastructure, and nothing preventing them from
> > submitting the drivers and arch code if they want to, right?
>
> From what I can see, yes.
>
> > If so, why don't you submit it?
>
> because I have no knowledge on the code, nor have any documentation on
> the underlying hardware. That said, it's in my TODO, but stuff keeps
> getting in before this entry.
>
> >Why don't they?
>
> I just checked with some dev on IRC, there might be a time issue. The
> patches have been synced with 2.6.36 recently (a month ago). So
> there're still hope :)
Of course there is, but like I told you on IRC, the best way to gather
someone's attention is to talk to him. So far, you did not put openwrt-devel
in copy of this thread, you should have, we are not ignoring anyone's request
if made available.
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-09 13:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-30 18:18 Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline Elvis Dowson
2010-11-02 21:25 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 18:12 ` Greg KH
2010-11-06 19:22 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 19:40 ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-06 23:40 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-06 23:52 ` david
2010-11-07 0:03 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-07 0:13 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07 0:20 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-09 16:30 ` Mark Brown
2010-11-07 0:20 ` david
2010-11-10 13:54 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-10 20:38 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2011-01-11 14:33 ` Pavel Machek
2010-11-06 23:42 ` Janakiram Sistla
2010-11-06 23:09 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 0:24 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-11-07 8:38 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 11:44 ` Anca Emanuel
2010-11-07 15:57 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 20:06 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-07 21:31 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 21:46 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:47 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 18:10 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:24 ` Greg KH
2010-11-09 18:37 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 18:42 ` david
2010-11-09 18:52 ` Elvis Dowson
2010-11-09 20:55 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-09 22:32 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-10 0:35 ` Ted Ts'o
2010-11-10 9:53 ` Florian Mickler
2010-11-10 20:55 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-07 21:44 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-07 21:59 ` Greg KH
2010-11-07 23:09 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-08 1:42 ` Greg KH
2010-11-08 2:22 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-09 13:27 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2010-11-11 0:33 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11 0:40 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12 3:15 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-12 10:26 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-11 0:47 ` Greg KH
2010-11-11 11:21 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-12 3:17 ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11 11:18 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:27 ` Florian Fainelli
2010-11-09 13:51 ` [OpenWrt-Devel] " Wolfgang Spraul
2010-11-13 3:06 ` Arnaud Lacombe
2010-11-15 17:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-16 6:23 ` Brian Swetland
2010-11-16 7:02 ` Anca Emanuel
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