Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964894Ab1CaIbS (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:31:18 -0400 Received: from caramon.arm.linux.org.uk ([78.32.30.218]:47168 "EHLO caramon.arm.linux.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753387Ab1CaIbO (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:31:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 09:30:45 +0100 From: Russell King - ARM Linux To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Nicolas Pitre , david@lang.hm, Linus Torvalds , Arnd Bergmann , Tony Lindgren , David Brown , lkml , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window Message-ID: <20110331083044.GB14323@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <201103301906.42429.arnd@arndb.de> <20110331080634.GA18022@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110331080634.GA18022@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1074 Lines: 19 On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 10:06:34AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Having strong, effective platform abstractions inside the kernel really helps > even if the hardware space itself is inevitably fragmented: both powerpc and > x86 has shown that. Until you realize and appreciate that you really have not > understood the problem i think. No, I think it is the other way around. Folk like me and Nicolas over the last ten years have put considerable amounts of effort into trying to keep the ARM support code as clean and maintainable as possible. That is true of the common ARM stuff, but there's no way we can do this for all SoC support - there aren't the hours in the day to provide such a wide oversight. That's why we have SoC maintainers, and the SoC maintainers have the responsibility to sort out their own sub-trees. -- 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/