[Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration

gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Sep 9 11:03:28 UTC 2016


On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:45:45AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:19:30PM +0200, gregkh at linuxfoundation.org wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:55:12PM +0000, Bird, Timothy wrote:
> 
> > > I think that it's important to identify key features that inhibit non-vendor developers
> > > from working on stuff in mainline, and fix those.  That's why I've got a bee in my bonnet
> > > about USB charging.
> 
> > Why about that topic?  NO ONE SUBMITTED PATCHES FOR IT!  Until recently,
> > and that's only because Linaro decided to pick one of the random vendor
> > tree solutions and tried to upstream it.
> 
> Baolin wrote all that code from scratch - it's not based off a vendor
> tree.

Oh that's even worse!  Well, worse from the case of "the vendors
shipping this type of functionality really do not care".

> > That's kind of proof that upstream is being flat-out ignored...
> 
> Or that people were working on other things, it's not like this is the
> only thing that people are missing in mainline.

What is the list of things that you know of that we are currently
missing?

> > could really do here.  Except congratulate Linaro for doing the dirty
> > work, they are doing good stuff here in trying to reduce the delta.
> 
> Thanks, especially to Baolin for his persistence.

Yes, that's a great job, especially given that it was started "from
scratch".

greg k-h


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