Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932190AbZJ3OIK (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:08:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932142AbZJ3OIJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:08:09 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:37269 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932170AbZJ3OII (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:08:08 -0400 Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:08:06 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Bryan Wu Cc: Greg KH , Brian Swetland , Eric Miao , kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: Android logger: fix compiling error Message-ID: <20091030140806.GD1481@ucw.cz> References: <1256316741-14053-1-git-send-email-bryan.wu@canonical.com> <20091027140558.GA17208@suse.de> <4AE8E953.6090504@canonical.com> <20091029010419.GA18410@suse.de> <4AE8EBCB.5030102@canonical.com> <20091029011759.GA908@suse.de> <4AE8EF8C.9030805@canonical.com> <20091029012857.GA30274@suse.de> <4AE8F604.2090005@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AE8F604.2090005@canonical.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1288 Lines: 33 Hi! >>> But now, it is hard for us to do that without a workable Android >>> drivers in mainline. >> >> Then push on Google to get them cleaned up and fixed! Or do it >> yourself, all I need is a developer to take ownership of the code. >> > > I'm doing a task which is trying to merge Android patches to Ubuntu > kernel and mainline, not only the Android drivers but also the ARM port > code which is not in mainline. > > But since Android kernel is 2.6.29 and ours or mainline is 2.6.31+, you > know it needs much more effort without Google's help. > > And for sure, I'm very happy to help this out. I guess Greg will be happy to put android stuff back into staging if you promise to maintain it. That should be fairly low effort (hour per week?). Basically you have to respond to email, fix it when it breaks, and perhaps test compile it when -rc1 comes... Sounds easy enough, no? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- 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/