On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 10:32:50AM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:

> Trying to get on-topic: where organisations providing kernels like LSK
> (Linaro) can help is offering to integrate/maintain the SoC back-port
> while encouraging the SoC vendors to focus on developing against the
> latest upstream. It looks to me that on (too) many occasions SoC vendors

You can sit between a vendor and their customer during bringup and
integration if you want to but I'm not sure you'll find many other
people willing to do that, and I'm not sure that anyone else would
want a third party in that path anyway.

> take LSK as their development base for new SoC ports, making the
> forward-porting effort significantly larger (and potentially ignored).

I'm not sure that one direction is that much harder than the other TBH,
it's more about the motivation being there in the first place.