Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751222Ab0KIN1Q (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:27:16 -0500 Received: from mail-ew0-f46.google.com ([209.85.215.46]:42311 "EHLO mail-ew0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751214Ab0KIN1N (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Nov 2010 08:27:13 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :organization:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; b=OvoIZv6Yfs5ZQ0EQtNa15tB95bCltyDsOLiKaRUcDojF2reQgniPbO5VBkI4xH31m9 aMCFdAqNZ6YXnjGmUp3i2vW78eE4wiN7+7g3h+0dZSic1zPudqG5Kjbe2/G5T9ogPhGa kNXlr/FN/A1ocABAYttnUj9jcktlaACI21eQI= From: Florian Fainelli To: Arnaud Lacombe Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 14:27:09 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-22-server; KDE/4.5.1; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Greg KH , Anca Emanuel , Elvis Dowson , Linux Kernel Mailing List , openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org References: <01784A8B-36A0-4E8A-9729-23C2B19351F8@mac.com> <20101107155757.GA13736@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Organization: OpenWrt MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011091427.09050.florian@openwrt.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2051 Lines: 47 Arnaud, On Sunday 07 November 2010 22:44:48 Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > [...] > > Just a small comment to say that Android is not the only one (but > certainly the most visible, and thus easiest to bash on) not making > effort to get their stuff in mainline. OpenWRT people are also > maintaining their fork of the kernel, without even using git, and not > contributing much to mainline (I'm certainly mistaken on that last > comment). You are a bit rude and mistaking at the same time. We did contribute back TI AR7, Mikrotik RB532, RDC R-321x, IXP4xx to name a few and a lot of various patches on different related projects. So I do agree the situation is not the best because we still maintain too many patches in the OpenWrt repository, especially since the added value of OpenWrt do not only resides in the kernel patches for a specific target. Please understand that we are just human beings and right now, ar71xx is becoming more and more present on the wireless routers market, that's why developpers (Imre and Gabor) are being kept busy making this target work fine on all of the routers out there (and it's not just about 1 or 2 models, we are talking about nearly 50, all of these with different hardware integration, thus challenges). The fact that we are using subversion is purely gratuitous, remember this is just a tool after all. The flat structure that we have, and the per-kernel version patches still makes it easy for people to pick whatever they need from our tree. Certainly this is not ideal, but no major stopper. > > I'm still stuck to use their 2.6.32 to use my AR71xx-based (MIPS) > boards, just this part is +15kloc. 2.6.36 support for ar71xx is out there since Oct 8th. -- Florian -- 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/