linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

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Message-ID: <20110330231336.GT2255@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:13:36 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	Nicolas Pitre <nico@...xnic.net>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Brown <davidb@...eaurora.org>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:47:52PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [110330 15:35]:
> > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:54:35PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> [110330 14:07]:
> > > > 
> > > > So one person will be not enough, that needs to be a whole team of
> > > > experienced people in the very near future to deal with the massive
> > > > tsunami of crap which is targeted at mainline. If we fail to set that
> > > > up, then we run into a very ugly maintainability issue in no time.
> > > 
> > > One thing that will help here and distribute the load is to move
> > > more things under drivers/ as then we have more maintainers looking
> > > at the code.
> > 
> > In many cases, the ARM SoC vendors will want their people producing the
> > code, so although moving things to drivers might be a good thing to do,
> > it won't really increase the number of people involved.  Plus the move
> > to the drivers subtree would be a problem for devices with tight ties
> > to the board or SoC.
> > 
> > There is work on pushing towards common code, but there is a lot of code
> > and this will take time and a lot of work.
> 
> I agree on the common code part, then even drivers with tight
> ties to board or SoC become just generic drivers that are easy
> to review.

Yep!  The trick is getting to that point.  Some drivers will be easier
than others.

							Thanx, Paul
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