On Mon, Sep 05 2016, Mark Brown wrote:

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> 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.

Really?  That is worthy of a "pet peeve"?
The patch set does highlight an important area of missing functionality,
but doesn't (IMO) display much understanding of the problem space.  I'm
not surprised it hasn't made progress.

Maybe I should reply to the patch directly.

Thanks,
NeilBrown