On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:45:52AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03 2016, Bird, Timothy wrote:

> > Where we are now with some of these SoCs is at millions of lines of
> > code out-of-tree.  It's being reduced, slowly, but there are still
> > significant areas where the mainline kernel just doesn't have the
> > support needed for shipping product. My pet peeve is support for
> > charging over USB, where Linaro has had a patch set
> > being stalled and/or ignored by the USB maintainer for 2 years!!

> Do you have a link to that?  I have an interest in charging over USB.

This is it:

    https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/7/1/35

it's been more like one year than two and there has been progress but
there's also been an awful lot of latency in the process too.