On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 02:57:38PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 5/29/2014 9:46 AM, Mark Brown wrote:

> > This is very true, to a good approximation nobody in the consumer
> > electronics space cares in the slightest about upstream - it's just not
> > useful as-is.  These days it's likely to be the current Android kernel

> I must be nobody then.  For many years I have been pushing for being as
> close to mainline as possible.  Even to the point of using an -rc1
> release as the beginning point of new product development, knowing that
> we would need to follow the churn through the rc versions.

> And we encourage and are supportive of our SoC vendors working in mainline
> instead of vendor trees.

Right, there's a very small number of people doing this sort of thing
(hence the "approximation") and you're not the only ones but it really
is very rare.