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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Maxime Ripard wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 06:26:55PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > Someone in a reddit thread about this email conversation said, in trying
> > to quote Linus, something along the lines of "the nuclear option should
> > have been done to Allwinner a long time ago".  And that proved my point
> > exactly.  Allwinner was a pain for a very long time.  But as developers,
> > and through the efforts of a lot of people at the Linux Foundation and
> > Linaro, Allwinner is now a contributor to the kernel, and actively
> > sponsors developers to write GPLv2 code for their chips.
> 
> While I generally agree with you on this topic, this is simply not
> true.
> 
> As the Allwinner SoC maintainer, I never received any patch from
> someone either from the Linux Foundation or Linaro. And to the best of
> my knowledge, I'm not aware of anyone being paid by Allwinner to work
> on the kernel.

You wouldn't have gotten anything from the LF (we don't have many
developers as you know), but I thought that Allwinner was part of
Linaro, is that not correct?

> Allwinner is not a pain anymore because a few hobbyists started
> working on the kernel to improve the situation.

Really?  How did the work for the Chip computer come about?  That's an
Allwinner processor, right?

thanks,

greg k-h