Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754741Ab3FGIxF (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 04:53:05 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:38279 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753741Ab3FGIwj (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jun 2013 04:52:39 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 09:49:13 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: "luke.leighton" Cc: Tomasz Figa , devicetree-discuss , Stephen Warren , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Linux on small ARM machines , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Message-ID: <20130607084913.GR18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> <1733666.lHUBcfUXq9@flatron> <20130606131042.GN18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 889 Lines: 18 On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:02:43AM +0100, luke.leighton wrote: > ok. so. we come back to the question again: what shall i propose to > them that they consider doing, and what benefit would it be to them to > do so? > > i cannot go to them and say "you have to do this [insert proposal > here]" - it has to be more subtle than that. It seems that you don't have to do anything at all. From what Arnd and others have said, they are _already_ talking to, and working with people in the kernel community to move their code base forward, move to DT, and they are already starting to send their own patches for the mainline kernel themselves. -- 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/