From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2016 13:03:28 +0200 From: "gregkh@linuxfoundation.org" To: Mark Brown Message-ID: <20160909110328.GA6356@kroah.com> References: <20160905140327.a6wgdl3lr42nlww4@thunk.org> <9895277.d39OTXtlqC@avalon> <20160906003532.GA3950@sirena.org.uk> <1473175831.17204.29.camel@HansenPartnership.com> <20160906194404.GA22363@kroah.com> <20160906222058.GS3950@sirena.org.uk> <10203253-0df5-4ff3-8cd4-9e6b38661d57@email.android.com> <20160908191930.GA32595@kroah.com> <20160909104545.GG27946@sirena.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20160909104545.GG27946@sirena.org.uk> Cc: James Bottomley , "ltsi-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , "ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org" , Baolin.Wang@linaro.org Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [Stable kernel] feature backporting collaboration List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 11:45:45AM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 09:19:30PM +0200, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 06:55:12PM +0000, Bird, Timothy wrote: > > > > I think that it's important to identify key features that inhibit non-vendor developers > > > from working on stuff in mainline, and fix those. That's why I've got a bee in my bonnet > > > about USB charging. > > > Why about that topic? NO ONE SUBMITTED PATCHES FOR IT! Until recently, > > and that's only because Linaro decided to pick one of the random vendor > > tree solutions and tried to upstream it. > > Baolin wrote all that code from scratch - it's not based off a vendor > tree. Oh that's even worse! Well, worse from the case of "the vendors shipping this type of functionality really do not care". > > That's kind of proof that upstream is being flat-out ignored... > > Or that people were working on other things, it's not like this is the > only thing that people are missing in mainline. What is the list of things that you know of that we are currently missing? > > could really do here. Except congratulate Linaro for doing the dirty > > work, they are doing good stuff here in trying to reduce the delta. > > Thanks, especially to Baolin for his persistence. Yes, that's a great job, especially given that it was started "from scratch". greg k-h