Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:07:05 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: Problem with restricted I2C algorithms in kernel 2.6.26! |
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:52:05AM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Fri, 8 Aug 2008, Jean Delvare wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 16:41:10 -0700 (PDT), Trent Piepho wrote: > > > Expecting every developer to keep abreast of linux-next and the tens of > > > thousands of patches it gets just isn't realisitic. > > > > > > The embedded platforms I develop on won't run linux-next. Continuously > > > porting them to linux-next is simply impossible. The man hours required to > > > do that would be staggering. > > > > Once again a "believe me it's impossible" without any good reason > > given. I fail to see why embedded platforms would be any different from > > other platforms or subsystem trees. Please enlighten me. > > Because they usually require lots of additional patches that aren't in the > kernel. Sometimes embedded developers try to get these patches into the > mainline kernel, but some maintainers aren't interested in accepting > patches that don't appear to be useful to desktop users. >...
The last thing mustn't happen.
Can you give examples?
cu Adrian
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