[Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] Mainline kernel on a cellphone

Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Wed Aug 26 13:58:35 UTC 2015


On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 12:56:30PM +0000, Jason Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:22:11AM +0900, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > Mali GPU drivers are an interesting case:
> ...
> > 4. Their coding style is so different that I can't imagine mainlining
> > them into staging area... Recently I was digging into Mali400 and it was
> > literally hurting my eyes to see that coding style. It's like opposite
> > of kernel.
> 
> iirc, gregkh's requirement for staging/ is that it compile.  Nothing
> more.

Yes. But Greg will also say that we should be modifying the code with
the ultimate goal of moving it out of staging into the main part of the
kernel. And if all of us know that it can not be merged into the main part
because of closed userspace then will Greg accept it?

regards
sudip


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