Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 May 2009 15:42:17 +0200 | From | Robert Schwebel <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Device Tree on ARM platform |
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 09:33:28AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote: > > Wolfgang, you know me long enough to realize that this argument is > > *crap*. > > > > Talking about business cases, it has turned out to be extremely > > difficult to explain customers that the effort for the actual > > functionality is only a little percentage of the work necessary to do > > the oftree stuff right. The functionality has often worked after a few > > hours, and until all oftrees have been solved, it often takes weeks. > > > > In result, this has already led to customers concluding that > > > > - mainline is not worth the effort > > And as an indirect customer of yours (via Phytec) I am spending a > bunch of time submitting code you wrote to mainline. By not submitting > code to mainline you prevent me from getting to security patches that > have been made to later kernels. "port and forget" is evil should be > banned.
This is absurd. Check
http://remword.com/kps_result/2_6_30_whole.html http://remword.com/kps_result/2_6_29_whole.html
and I suppose our commitment to mainlining should be out of question, also taking into account that all of this is done by a kernel team of six people.
Nevertheless, nobody has infinite time, sorry.
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