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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
	david@lang.hm, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
	Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>,
	Janakiram Sistla <janakiram.sistla@gmail.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:38:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011102138.22213.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101110135458.GB1553@ucw.cz>

On Wednesday, November 10, 2010, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2010-11-06 20:03:48, Ted Ts'o wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:26PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > > also, none of these other patches resulted in device drivers
> > > developed for a distro being incompatible with mainline.
> > 
> > What, people can't delete a couple of single lines of code before
> > submitting the device driver upstream to mainline?  Here's the world's
> > tiniest violin playing, "my heart bleeds for you"....
> 
> Deleting couple single liners is not a problem. Cleaning up 100KLoC
> patch for mainline *is* a problem.
> 
> I know, I tried to do that work. Even getting it to staging quality
> was hard, and it was recently dropped due to security holes.
> 
> Unfortunately google uses wakelocks as an excuse for not cleaning up
> stuff... "because readding those few lines would be too hard".

Actually, this isn't a good excuse any more as of 2.6.37-rc1.  You can
basically replace wakelocks with wakeup sources and go ahead.

Thanks,
Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-10 20:39 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 [this message]
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
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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