On Mon, Dec 30, 2024 at 1:39 PM Bruce Ashfield via lists.yoctoproject.org <[email protected]> wrote: > > In message: [linux-yocto] DT-Overlay configfs interface - Patch for mainline? > on 29/12/2024 Livius via lists.yoctoproject.org wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can someone explain this patch why never was pushed in mainline Linux > > kernel yet? It would be a useful new feature for mainline Linux also. > > https://lists.yoctoproject.org/g/linux-yocto/message/11437 > > That's really only a question the patch author can answer, > but if memory serves Pantelis did submit these (and several > other similar device tree patches) on a few occasions to > the upstream kernel/u-boot and neither were picked up. > > They aren't causing any issues in the reference kernel, and > I've always seen them as sufficiently useful and of good > quality to be appropriate for the middle ground of linux-yocto. >
>From (very distant, possibly faulty) memory, upstreaming was abandoned because of outstanding issues (I think related to quiescing instances, but I could be totally mis-remembering). FWIW I used those patches in a previous life w/o issue too... -- Alex Kiernan
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