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From: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: George Nychis <gnychis@gmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what determines how firmware is loaded? (Q. on request_firmware details)
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:48:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120426154844.GL3207@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120426152742.GB15674@kroah.com>

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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 08:27:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:23:10PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:

> > Unfortunately 3.0 is what ICS is based off so the overwhelming majority
> > of vendor code is going to be based on it until the next Android
> > release.  With my vendor hat on I have to say that we find our upstream
> > first policy extremely effective so we shouldn't be part of the issue.

> That's great, and understandable, but the original poster said they were
> using an old Ubuntu release, and the ability for the community to
> support bugs in older kernel releases like this is very difficult as you
> well know.

Oh, I missed that bit of the thread - if they're using a desktop distro 
then upgrading should be much less painful than it would be with a
typical vendor kernel.

> The next Android release should be "any day now" so hopefully we move on
> from 3.0 soon...

Well, by the end of the summer or something - even when the release
drops there's always lag while the releases propagate out to the wider
market.

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      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-26 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-23 20:18 what determines how firmware is loaded? (Q. on request_firmware details) George Nychis
2012-04-23 21:21 ` Greg KH
2012-04-23 21:28   ` George Nychis
2012-04-23 22:52     ` George Nychis
2012-04-23 22:56     ` Greg KH
2012-04-26 15:23       ` Mark Brown
2012-04-26 15:27         ` Greg KH
2012-04-26 15:48           ` Mark Brown [this message]

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