Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Let's see... I currently have: > > $ git diff --shortstat old_linaro-2.6.38..new_linaro-2.6.38 > 805 files changed, 55412 insertions(+), 25203 deletions(-) > > $ git diff --shortstat old_linaro-2.6.38..v2.6.38 > 966 files changed, 15985 insertions(

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Loïc Minier
On Mon, Mar 28, 2011, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > If you worry about the users of the Android tree more than the > git history of it, there may be another option: Take the diff between > the old and the new linaro-2.6.38 and apply that on the Android > tree. After you have fixed up all conflicts you get

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Nicolas Pitre
On Mon, 28 Mar 2011, john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 00:06 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Given those issues, I decided to rebuild the linaro-2.6.38 branch from > > scratch to see where that would bring me. And as could be expected, the > > result looks nicer and it is much easier t

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Monday 28 March 2011 20:22:42 john stultz wrote: > On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 00:06 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > > Given those issues, I decided to rebuild the linaro-2.6.38 branch from > > scratch to see where that would bring me. And as could be expected, the > > result looks nicer and it is mu

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread john stultz
On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 00:06 -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Given those issues, I decided to rebuild the linaro-2.6.38 branch from > scratch to see where that would bring me. And as could be expected, the > result looks nicer and it is much easier to work with than the current > tree. For exampl

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Grant Likely
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: [...]> Given those issues, I decided to rebuild the linaro-2.6.38 branch from > scratch to see where that would bring me.  And as could be expected, the > result looks nicer and it is much easier to work with than the current > tree.  For exam

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread Paul E. McKenney
I favor sticking close to mainline unless it irreparably breaks something. Thanx, Paul On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:06:31AM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As I've been working on the integration of the latest developments a

Re: Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-28 Thread John Rigby
The rebuilt branch is fine for me. My tree creation methodology is patterned after the Ubuntu kernel which means I rebase to new upstreams each release so I don't mind if my upstreams do as well. John On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:06 PM, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Hello everyone, > > As I've been work

Status of the linaro-2.6.38 kernel

2011-03-27 Thread Nicolas Pitre
Hello everyone, As I've been working on the integration of the latest developments and fixes from upstream into the linaro-2.6.38 kernel lately, it became quickly evident that major merge conflicts were to be expected. The problem stems from the fact that we opened the 2.6.38 branch early i.e.