Announce: TILT tracking Androidization trees

[Andy Green]

On 10/05/2011 07:38 PM, Asac said:
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Andy Green <andy.green at linaro.org
> <mailto:andy.green at linaro.org>> wrote:


>         One thing that isn't entirely clear from what you describe is
>         whether we
>         would do the forward porting for new linus HEAD versions on our
>         own or
>         if we would wait until we get a first androidization from either
>         google
>         or our members?
>
>
>     You're right it's a good question.  What I have in mind is not to
>     leave the patchset as the current pile of semi-history patches all
>     intermingled but impose topic-branch ordering on them.
>
>     So for example, I was quite surprised to see so many patches on net
>     core subsystem, lots on net / wireless subsystem too all through the
>     series.  It would be interesting to re-order the patches so we had
>     all the net core stuff in one layer, wireless-related stuff in
>     another layer all together and so on, same way tilt-tracking is
>     composed.  We don't have to get OCD about it and do everything, we
>     can have a topic at the end with stuff contaminated from all
>     directions and leave it like it is for now.  But I guess most
>     patches will go into a topic if it is ordered correctly.
>
>
> Thats an interesting idea. We should not miss the opportunity to discuss
> the idea of reordering the patches with AOSP to see if they would be
> willing to take/collaborate on such an effort. Can you kick off such
> discussion on AOSP mailing lists?

Sure I'll propose it cc-ing linaro-dev and -kernel.

It's two separate issues for these guys if they want to have a fulltime 
tracking kernel to get away from "the -rc7 blues" they must suffer from 
at the moment, and if refactoring the patchset is helpful for them or not.

> OK good. It's set up but we seem to have build issues; guess android
> team will fix that later today:
> https://android-build.linaro.org/builds/~linaro-android/tracking-panda/.

No worries, I appreciate it's on its way.

-Andy

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