On 09/03/11 02:44, Barry Song wrote: > Thanks. Amit. > > 2011/3/8 Amit Kucheria <amit.kuche...@linaro.org>: >> On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Barry Song <21cn...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Lee, >>> Great! Thanks a lot. It looks like the communication between linaro >>> and mainline is that linaro can backport some bug fixes and features >>> from mainline to linaro tree. Linaro doesn't help to review patches >>> and send to mainline. >> We prefer to see it this way: >> >> Develop against mainline and get those features integrated there. Keep >> linaro-dev in cc if these are features might be something Linaro would >> care about. >> >> The Linaro kernel (maintained by Nicolas Pitre and packaged by John >> Rigby) is a sort of technology demonstration to show what we achieve >> every 6 months. Some patches in it are backports, others are features >> that are still under review in mainline. But I doubt if Nicolas will >> take un-reviewed code directly into his tree. >> >>> Then I have two more questions >>> 1. is there a detailed list of backport and bug fix in linaro kernel >>> tree since those are the difference between mainline and linaro tree? >> 'git log' with the right incantations should be able to tell you that. >> Look up Nicolas' email announcements for the high-level overview of >> what he has integrated. >> >>> 2. will linaro accept patches from non-member companies and help to >>> maintain, I mean a SoC company which doesn't join linaro? >> Linaro doesn't want to maintain dead code that isn't going upstream. >> It won't even do it for member companies. At most it is the incubator >> where the code lives and gets wider testing _while_ it is being >> reworked for mainline. > If patches are going mainline, but they are not from members TI, > Freescale, ST-E etc, can they be merged into linaro kernel?
I don't see any reason why not, but the overall decision will be made by Nico. _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
