From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from www.osadl.org ([213.239.205.134] helo=mail.tglx.de) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HP0un-00017H-DY for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 13:31:08 -0500 Subject: RE: JFFS2 Support for Large Flash Designs From: Thomas Gleixner To: ian@brightstareng.com In-Reply-To: <200703071317.38907.ian@brightstareng.com> References: <200703071223.07485.ian@brightstareng.com> <1173289687.24738.654.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200703071317.38907.ian@brightstareng.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 19:37:14 +0100 Message-Id: <1173292634.24738.663.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org Reply-To: tglx@linutronix.de List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 13:17 -0500, ian@brightstareng.com wrote: > On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12:48, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > SoC devices out of tree are a seperate steaming pile of ... I > > have seen too many chip vendor kernels explode when you just > > try to do anything else than run "hello world" on them. > > I agree that this is far from ideal -- I have to deal with this > all the time. But I also appreciate that some vendors do > actually bother to contribute some base code to support their > designs, even if I have to go in and fix it. > > The vendors need to do better job at establishing a framework to > solicit fixes, improvements and new code from their customers, > integrate it, and feed it up the tree into the mainline. It is > clearly to their benefit. As well as it would be for out of tree drivers and such. The time people spend to catch up with mainline to maintain their #ifdef mess would be much more useful spent when the stuff would be in tree. tglx