From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9B6CF89E for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.187]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F285B2BD for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2016 19:45:44 +0000 (UTC) From: Arnd Bergmann To: Guenter Roeck Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 21:44:40 +0200 References: <20160826193331.GA29084@jra3> <201608301733.36149.arnd@arndb.de> <20160830160450.GC26785@roeck-us.net> In-Reply-To: <20160830160450.GC26785@roeck-us.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201608302144.40679.arnd@arndb.de> Cc: "Bradley M. Kuhn" , Linus Torvalds , ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [CORE TOPIC] GPL defense issues List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tuesday 30 August 2016, Guenter Roeck wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 05:33:36PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > > > Anyway, like I was saying, no one from Linaro ever contributed > > > something meaningful (except some cross-tree patches, and the usual > > > "maintainance" patches). > > > > I'm not surprised at all. Most of the kernel work we do in > > Linaro is intentionally cross-platform (so it benefits all members > > equally), or it is done on those platforms that the members decide > > are important upstream. > > > One may wonder how your Linux kernel patches and merges are classified > per the above. > > Thank you for all your work in the Linux kernel. It is anything but > meaningless, and it obviously goes far beyond "some cross-tree patches, > and the usual maintenance patches". I'm sure Maxime was specifically referring to mach-sunxi specific code here, but it's clear how that could be interpreted differently, or taken out of context. Looking at the commits in mach-sunxi from all Linaro developers, his categorization is completely right: $ git log --oneline --no-merges --author=linaro --author=arnd --author=robh torvalds/master arch/arm/mach-sunxi/ 5c34a4e89c74 ARM: do away with ARCH_[WANT_OPTIONAL|REQUIRE]_GPIOLIB 117d4f59affa cpufreq: sunxi: Use generic platdev driver e58cf0193c0f ARM: sunxi: allow building without reset controller 1146b600044d ARM: sunxi: fix build for THUMB2_KERNEL 90bc8ac77dc8 ARM: select HAVE_SMP for V7 multi-platform ddb902cc3459 ARM: centralize common multi-platform kconfig options However, Linaro also has a number of subsystem maintainers and most of the sunxi specific drivers were reviewed and/or merged by someone in Linaro who is doing that work for all ARM platforms, whether they are made by Linaro member companies or not. Arnd