Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Nov 2010 18:09:33 -0500 | Subject | Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline | From | Arnaud Lacombe <> |
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Hi,
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:44:48PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: >> > [...] >> > >> Just a small comment to say that Android is not the only one (but >> certainly the most visible, and thus easiest to bash on) not making >> effort to get their stuff in mainline. OpenWRT people are also >> maintaining their fork of the kernel, without even using git, and not >> contributing much to mainline (I'm certainly mistaken on that last >> comment). > > 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? > From what I can see, yes.
> If so, why don't you submit it? > because I have no knowledge on the code, nor have any documentation on the underlying hardware. That said, it's in my TODO, but stuff keeps getting in before this entry.
>Why don't they? > I just checked with some dev on IRC, there might be a time issue. The patches have been synced with 2.6.36 recently (a month ago). So there're still hope :)
- Arnaud
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