From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Warren Subject: Re: [Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1)) Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 11:30:39 -0600 Message-ID: <51B218BF.60002@wwwdotorg.org> References: <1370475609.20454.44.camel@localhost> <1733666.lHUBcfUXq9@flatron> <20130606131042.GN18614@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "luke.leighton" Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , Tomasz Figa , devicetree-discuss , Linux Kernel Mailing List , debian-arm@lists.debian.org, "jonsmirl@gmail.com" , Linux on small ARM machines , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, debian-kernel@lists.debian.org List-Id: devicetree@vger.kernel.org On 06/07/2013 02:02 AM, luke.leighton wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > wrote: > >> If companies are going to go off and invent the square wheel, and that >> makes *them* suffer the loss of being able to merge back into the >> mainline kernel, thereby making *their* job of moving forward with >> their kernel versions much harder, then yes, we *are* happy. > > russell: they have more employees than sense :) they also don't have > any idea of what they *should* be doing, so this is an opportunity to > educate them. You know, they're probably reading this thread, and if not, they certainly can in the list archives. It's probably not a good idea to slag them off like that, and like other comments in this thread...