From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: tony@atomide.com (Tony Lindgren) Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 15:31:27 +0300 Subject: Status of arch/arm in linux-next In-Reply-To: <20110414120209.GG1611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20110414094447.GA1611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20110414110854.GF29938@atomide.com> <20110414120209.GG1611@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: <20110414123126.GA3336@atomide.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org * Russell King - ARM Linux [110414 14:59]: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:08:54PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > It's going to take some time before the consolidated code starts > > being available.. And until we have something available, we all > > should aim for negative diffstat. > > I think we've already lost any hope of a negative diffstat - with 6k new > lines, we will need a heck of a lot of consolidation to counter that. > > The only thing which I've seen any work being put into is some of the > GPIO code - which will be lost in the noise in much the same way that > my ARM platform consolidation and deletion of two machine classes in > the last merge window was. That resulted in the deletion of around 10k > lines from the kernel as a whole, or 4.5k lines from arch/arm. > > Some people are believing that Linus' complaint is about the core ARM > code rather than the platform specific code which is the problem. I think that 6k lines of new code should wait in the platform specific trees and not get merged until we have some real progress on the consolidation of code. > We need significant amounts of effort to reverse this - and the more new > stuff that appears in peoples trees (and therefore linux-next) the bigger > problem we have to convince Linus that we're taking him seriously. > > So, I think we've already lost any hope of making Linus happy for the > next merge window. I wish I'm wrong on that, but I don't think so. We should make it clear that we're not merging new code except for code consolidation. Looks like some people have missed it despite the massive flaming. Regards, Tony