On Tuesday 14 February 2006 16:01, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-02-14 15:48]: > > > put back a minimal form of that code rather than move to udev. I do > > > not know what effect this has on the rest of the patches but you might > > > > No, that's not a problem; the mips patches are in separate files. > > I've successfully combined with with the Debian mips kernel. > > FWIW, the main problem to get them merged into upstream is that > there's still lots of ugly Broadcom code in there that is very, very > Linux-unlike (i.e. generic layers so the code works on various > platforms). > -- > Martin Michlmayr > http://www.cyrius.com/ I guess they took that direct from Broadcom, and no-one has tried to rewrite it as they have many other things to do. Actually they currently have to spend time re-merging the patches with every new kernel so it would be in their interest to get them included, but I am not sure how much they simply take what Broadcom gives them and how much (at the kernel level) they do themselves.
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