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From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>,
	Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
	Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 19:15:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <adawrojkz9v.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1011110139200.2900@localhost6.localdomain6> (Thomas Gleixner's message of "Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:40:54 +0100 (CET)")

 > >  > 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?
 > > 
 > > Actually openwrt has some core infrastructure for managing (ethernet)
 > > switches as extra-fancy multiport PHYs.  That means that all the drivers
 > > in openwrt for the typical 5-8 port switches in home routers don't
 > > really apply to mainline.
 > 
 > Why not? Those switches _ARE_ extra-fancy multiport PHYs. And AFAICT
 > we have no support for this stuff in mainline at all.
 > 
 > So where is the problem ?

There's no real problem.  I was just pointing out that the openwrt
switch stuff actually does have some core infrastructure that mainline
is missing.  ie openwrt is not just drivers and arch code.

But yes I agree mainline should really do a better job of supporting
ethernet switches, and clearly openwrt has the most real-world
experience with implementing that.

 - R.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-12  3:16 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
2010-11-11  0:33               ` Roland Dreier
2010-11-11  0:40                 ` Thomas Gleixner
2010-11-12  3:15                   ` Roland Dreier [this message]
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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