Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756368Ab1C3WiO (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:38:14 -0400 Received: from e32.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.150]:37412 "EHLO e32.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753491Ab1C3WiN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Mar 2011 18:38:13 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 15:38:07 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Russell King - ARM Linux , Arnd Bergmann , Nicolas Pitre , Catalin Marinas , LKML , David Brown , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds , Ingo Molnar , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window Message-ID: <20110330223807.GP2255@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20110317183048.GW7258@atomide.com> <20110318101512.GA15375@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <201103301906.42429.arnd@arndb.de> <20110330215434.GI18334@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110330215434.GI18334@atomide.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1257 Lines: 27 On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner [110330 14:07]: > > > > So one person will be not enough, that needs to be a whole team of > > experienced people in the very near future to deal with the massive > > tsunami of crap which is targeted at mainline. If we fail to set that > > up, then we run into a very ugly maintainability issue in no time. > > One thing that will help here and distribute the load is to move > more things under drivers/ as then we have more maintainers looking > at the code. In many cases, the ARM SoC vendors will want their people producing the code, so although moving things to drivers might be a good thing to do, it won't really increase the number of people involved. Plus the move to the drivers subtree would be a problem for devices with tight ties to the board or SoC. There is work on pushing towards common code, but there is a lot of code and this will take time and a lot of work. Thanx, Paul -- 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/