On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:20 PM, Alon Bar-Lev <alon.bar...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:17 PM, David Sommerseth > <openvpn.l...@topphemmelig.net> wrote: >> Development is all about iterations. Let's see what we can do NOW to >> get Arne's approach reviewed properly, see if there are things which >> can be do to simplify the future somewhat ... but don't make this >> depend on a complete modularisation of OpenVPN first. > > There is nothing wrong in maintaining external patches until upstream > properly merged the change. > I've been maintaining such patches for years, with user base that was happy. > What's the rush? if users wants a solution they have it ready. > > Alon.
Can you please remind me how much time the android kernel patches were maintained outside of mainline? And why? Alon.
