On 2 June 2011 21:39, Christian Robottom Reis <k...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:01:01PM -0500, Zach Pfeffer wrote:
>> On 2 June 2011 18:55, Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pi...@linaro.org> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 2 Jun 2011, John Rigby wrote:
>> >
>> >> I noticed all the fine AndyDoan/Ricardo fixes that make panda
>> >> wonderful are missing.  My question now is should that stuff go back
>> >> in or should we plan on a LT/BSP kernel for full functionality.  I
>> >> presume if those patches were headed upstream they would be headed
>> >> upstream:).  If not they they should not be in linux-linaro.
>> >
>> > This is the strategy of this game.  If it isn't going upstream you lose.
>>
>> First, please don't take offense to this feedback. I know kernel
>> banter can have a harsh undertone.
>>
>> I'd like to suggest this kind of feedback isn't appropriate. The
>> issues concerning what can't be upstreamed are well known.
>
> Zach, in this case, Nicolas is completely right. The task within the
> Kernel WG is to maintain a consolidation tree with a pretty clear
> criteria of carrying only upstreamable patches. When the tree is
> rebased, the patches that aren't upstream (and not trivially portable,
> AIUI) get dropped, and the authors need to refresh them.
>
> The job of maintaining a working consolidation tree is already hard
> enough. Let's not make it any harder.
>
> (And I don't find tone inappropriate at all, but maybe that's because I
> can see his well-meaning grin when I read it <wink>)

Yeah. I see that now. I'm sorry for not getting clarification.

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