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From: Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re:
 Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 09:48:22 +0200
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luke.leighton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Vladimir Pantelic <vladoman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 4 days? WTF? since when did setting an ultimatum to the kernel
>> community work?
>
>   i was only informed of the opportunity 2 days ago, vladimir.  this is
> an important meeting.  of course the linux kernel community is
> entirely free to:
>
> * completely ignore this opportunity
> * continue to complain that soc vendors do not follow their
> unilaterally-decided rules

SoC vendors are free to join the discussion, and many SoC vendors are 
part of the kernel community, so calling this unilateral is plain wrong.

>   3 days remaining on the clock.

what catastrophic thing will happen when the time runs out?