[Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration
Mark Brown
broonie at kernel.org
Tue Sep 6 23:23:05 UTC 2016
On Tue, Sep 06, 2016 at 11:30:31AM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 01:35 +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > You're preaching to the converted here but just telling everyone over
> > and over again that they're doing a terrible job isn't helping
> > anything. It's not offering any sort of constructive suggestion for
> > how to improve the situation that engages with the reality on the
> > ground.
> OK, so how do we move forwards? Everyone who remembers the 2.4->2.6
> transition is convinced of upstream first because it was impossible to
> forward port the patch sets.
> So there's probably a couple of things we could do about this
> 1. Nothing. Say it's working about as well as can be expected for
> embedded and stop worrying.
I think I'd put it more as saying that there are relatively few special
snowflake things that we can do upstream to help here - most of the
things I can think of that are useful are just generally useful for
everyone rather than embedded specific.
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