Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:47:30 -0800
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Arnaud Lacombe <lacombar@gmail.com>, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com>,
        Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@mac.com>,
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Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline
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On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 04:33:38PM -0800, 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 can't we merge that core infrastructure as well?  Has it been
rejected for any specific reasons?

thanks,

greg k-h
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