Re: ARM platform trees (was: Re: HTC Dream aka. t-mobile g1 support)

Russell King - ARM Linux
2009-07-22T20:56:14Z

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:54:06AM -0700, Kevin Hilman wrote:
> Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 01:54:42PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> >> Make your tree the core ARM code only, any other patches you don't
> >> accept. Aggressively push stuff out to platform code, and if people want
> >> to change core code "because our platform is different" make them extract
> >> it into the platform layer not carry it in the core bits.
> >
> > I'm all for giving this a try after this merge window is over.
>
> So, in preparation for the next merge window...
>
> Is there an official way for ARM platform maintainers like myself to
> get stuff merged via Linus' tree? Is simply sending a pull request to
> Linus/LKML all that's required?

Yup.