Re: Linus being annoyed by the ARM kernel code

On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Eric Miao wrote:

Yeah, staging is more close to what I meant, a 'fork' is not appropriate here, as getting the support into mainline will always be our goal. Yet there seems to be necessary to have such a temporary place for those patches to live before the mainline is in a good enough shape.

No, that won't solve the problem. Patches will simply be pushed to that temporary place and rot there while their authors have moved on to the next SOC revision to enable.

The problem is more fundamental due to the lack of better common infrastructure. We must come to a point where SOC code is obvious to write and right from the start. That's the only solution that scales.

Nicolas