Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Florian Fainelli <> | Subject | Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline | Date | Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:27:59 +0100 |
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On Monday 08 November 2010 00:09:33 Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > 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 :)
Of course there is, but like I told you on IRC, the best way to gather someone's attention is to talk to him. So far, you did not put openwrt-devel in copy of this thread, you should have, we are not ignoring anyone's request if made available. -- Florian
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