Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:38:07 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window |
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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> [110330 14:07]: > > > > So one person will be not enough, that needs to be a whole team of > > experienced people in the very near future to deal with the massive > > tsunami of crap which is targeted at mainline. If we fail to set that > > up, then we run into a very ugly maintainability issue in no time. > > One thing that will help here and distribute the load is to move > more things under drivers/ as then we have more maintainers looking > at the code.
In many cases, the ARM SoC vendors will want their people producing the code, so although moving things to drivers might be a good thing to do, it won't really increase the number of people involved. Plus the move to the drivers subtree would be a problem for devices with tight ties to the board or SoC.
There is work on pushing towards common code, but there is a lot of code and this will take time and a lot of work.
Thanx, Paul
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