Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753939Ab0KGAPL (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:15:11 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:35848 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753860Ab0KGAPK (ORCPT ); Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:15:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 00:13:41 +0000 From: Alan Cox To: "Ted Ts'o" Cc: david@lang.hm, Anca Emanuel , Greg KH , Elvis Dowson , Janakiram Sistla , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline Message-ID: <20101107001341.4e39c631@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101107000348.GF2935@thunk.org> References: <01784A8B-36A0-4E8A-9729-23C2B19351F8@mac.com> <20101106181202.GA6927@kroah.com> <20101106192259.GB2935@thunk.org> <20101106234029.GC2935@thunk.org> <20101107000348.GF2935@thunk.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.6 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 20 On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 20:03:48 -0400 "Ted Ts'o" wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:26PM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote: > > also, none of these other patches resulted in device drivers > > developed for a distro being incompatible with mainline. > > What, people can't delete a couple of single lines of code before > submitting the device driver upstream to mainline? I've always wondered that but never seen a good answer from the Android people as to why they don't push the stuff without the wakelock bits and just keep "add wakelock" patches for those as they do for the core kernel stuff they hack about. -- 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/