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From: xerofoify@gmail.com (nick)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Port Newer Kernel to Android Device
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 20:02:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EA7C16.6000301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <151184.1424652916@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>



On 2015-02-22 07:55 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Feb 2015 13:19:40 -0500, Nicholas Krause said:
>> Validis,
>> That was my concern.  How much forward porting is required.
> 
> That will depend on your actual skill level.  That which is a long weekend's
> work for a master kernel hacker will be several week's work for a journeyman,
> a summer's project for a beginner, and impossible for a neophyte.
> 
> But I will go out on a limb and say that if you've already gotten the
> patch, looked at it, and still can't make even an estimate of how long it would
> take you, you're probably not going to be able to do the porting.
> 
Valdis,
This is just a idea for now I haven't have the idea to look at making the porting 
patch(es) yet.
Nick

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-23  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-22  4:52 Port Newer Kernel to Android Device nick
2015-02-22 13:04 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-02-22 13:40   ` Nicholas Krause
2015-02-22 17:46     ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-02-22 18:19       ` Nicholas Krause
2015-02-23  0:55         ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-02-23  1:02           ` nick [this message]
2015-02-23  5:05             ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2015-02-23 16:50               ` Nick Krause
2015-02-23 17:54                 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu

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