Re: [Xenomai-help] twl4030-irq takes 50%cpu constantly on omap3 gumstix overo

[Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>]

On 10/28/2011 06:28 PM, Manfred Quack wrote:
> However: is there a "clean" or "simple" way to apply the adeos-patches
> to the omap3-<>-kernels?

I do not think so. The only answer is: get the omap changes merged into
the mainline kernel, and use the mainline kernel. Because from a
maintenance point of view, maintaining one patch for each version of the
kernel is enough work to want and avoid maintaining versions for several
vendor-specific trees.

That said, if there are not many differences:
- we can arrange for the hunks to apply to both branches (we do this for
the at91 patch);
- we can provide two patches, a pre-patch applied before the adeos patch
(basically reverting all the changes causing conflicts), and a
post-patch applied after the adeos patch solving the conflicts (we did
this for instance for the imx kernel for 2.6.38)

I do not want to do this work for the omap branch, but if someone
provides the patches, we could find a way to make them available in the
tree, making it clear that it is not patches that we validated (for
instance creating a "contrib" directory). I am afraid, however, that
such patches would bitrot rapidly.

-- 
					    Gilles.