Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755114Ab3FFAYU (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:24:20 -0400 Received: from vps1.hno.se ([31.192.227.87]:39852 "EHLO vps1.hno.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754648Ab3FFAYT (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jun 2013 20:24:19 -0400 Message-ID: <1370478224.20454.69.camel@localhost> Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) From: Henrik =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordstr=F6m?= To: Linux on small ARM machines Cc: devicetree-discuss , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , ARM Linux Mailing List , debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 02:23:44 +0200 In-Reply-To: References: <1370468873.18839.22.camel@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.4 (3.6.4-3.fc18) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1154 Lines: 29 ons 2013-06-05 klockan 23:20 +0100 skrev luke.leighton: > ok: great. so we have something that i can potentially propose to > them. now: what reason can i give that they should accept this? > what's the biggest incentive for them, here, to make these changes? > what would they gain? Mainly a common infrastructure so they don't need to hack every driver to work with their scheme. But there is no way to escape from the fact that first round will be far more complicated than just adding their own stuff as-is likely is. Many of the upstreamed drivers are rewritten and far from their drivers. And further complicated by their supported designs often using devices (wifi modules, touch panels, nand chips, etc) where 3 year old barely maintained vendor code actually works better than what is currently in the upstream kernel. So no, I can not say that there is an easy road ahead, Regards Henri -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/