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Message-ID: <20101110135458.GB1553@ucw.cz> Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:54:58 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>, david@...g.hm, Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, Elvis Dowson <elvis.dowson@....com>, Janakiram Sistla <janakiram.sistla@...il.com>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline On Sat 2010-11-06 20:03:48, Ted Ts'o wrote: > On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 04:52:26PM -0700, david@...g.hm wrote: > > also, none of these other patches resulted in device drivers > > developed for a distro being incompatible with mainline. > > What, people can't delete a couple of single lines of code before > submitting the device driver upstream to mainline? Here's the world's > tiniest violin playing, "my heart bleeds for you".... Deleting couple single liners is not a problem. Cleaning up 100KLoC patch for mainline *is* a problem. I know, I tried to do that work. Even getting it to staging quality was hard, and it was recently dropped due to security holes. Unfortunately google uses wakelocks as an excuse for not cleaning up stuff... "because readding those few lines would be too hard". Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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