Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757640Ab0KKAlJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:41:09 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:39577 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757597Ab0KKAlH (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Nov 2010 19:41:07 -0500 Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 01:40:54 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Roland Dreier cc: Greg KH , Arnaud Lacombe , Anca Emanuel , Elvis Dowson , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <01784A8B-36A0-4E8A-9729-23C2B19351F8@mac.com> <20101106181202.GA6927@kroah.com> <39580686-A899-4689-BAAD-AF5546B34E49@mac.com> <20101107155757.GA13736@kroah.com> <20101107215908.GA21070@kroah.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 914 Lines: 24 On Wed, 10 Nov 2010, Roland Dreier wrote: > > Isn't the openwrt stuff just drivers and some arch specific code? > > Nothing that is core infrastructure, and nothing preventing them from > > submitting the drivers and arch code if they want to, right? > > Actually openwrt has some core infrastructure for managing (ethernet) > switches as extra-fancy multiport PHYs. That means that all the drivers > in openwrt for the typical 5-8 port switches in home routers don't > really apply to mainline. Why not? Those switches _ARE_ extra-fancy multiport PHYs. And AFAICT we have no support for this stuff in mainline at all. So where is the problem ? Thanks, tglx -- 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/