Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753087Ab0FFTFx (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:05:53 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:32843 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752451Ab0FFTFv (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:05:51 -0400 Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 15:05:25 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: James Bottomley Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox , Florian Mickler , Vitaly Wool , Brian Swetland , Arve Hj?nnev?g , Arjan van de Ven , tytso@mit.edu, Peter Zijlstra , "H. Peter Anvin" , LKML , Neil Brown , Linux PM , Ingo Molnar , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration Message-ID: <20100606190525.GA20517@infradead.org> References: <1275834706.7227.545.camel@mulgrave.site> <1275844114.7227.552.camel@mulgrave.site> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1275844114.7227.552.camel@mulgrave.site> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 17 On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:08:34PM -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Well, we sort of tried this when Greg pulled some of them into the > staging tree. The problem is that without the annotations, the drivers > are still different, and patches won't apply, so, unsurprisingly, they > didn't get improved or even maintained. Err, the biggest pile in staging was meta drivers like the binder or some oom killer magic which are flat out braindead and wrong and have no chance going into mainline anyway. That's something different from real hardware drivers, although a few of those made it into staging as well if I remember correctly. -- 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/