On Tuesday 09 November 2010, Florian Fainelli wrote: > Arnaud, > > On Sunday 07 November 2010 22:44:48 Arnaud Lacombe wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > > Just a small comment to say that Android is not the only one (but > > certainly the most visible, and thus easiest to bash on) not making > > effort to get their stuff in mainline. OpenWRT people are also > > maintaining their fork of the kernel, without even using git, and not > > contributing much to mainline (I'm certainly mistaken on that last > > comment). > > You are a bit rude and mistaking at the same time. We did contribute back > TI AR7, Mikrotik RB532, RDC R-321x, IXP4xx to name a few and a lot of > various patches on different related projects. > > So I do agree the situation is not the best because we still maintain too > many patches in the OpenWrt repository, especially since the added value > of OpenWrt do not only resides in the kernel patches for a specific > target. > > Please understand that we are just human beings and right now, ar71xx is > becoming more and more present on the wireless routers market, that's why > developpers (Imre and Gabor) are being kept busy making this target work > fine on all of the routers out there (and it's not just about 1 or 2 > models, we are talking about nearly 50, all of these with different > hardware integration, thus challenges). > > The fact that we are using subversion is purely gratuitous, remember this > is just a tool after all. The flat structure that we have, and the > per-kernel version patches still makes it easy for people to pick whatever > they need from our tree. Certainly this is not ideal, but no major > stopper. > > > I'm still stuck to use their 2.6.32 to use my AR71xx-based (MIPS) > > boards, just this part is +15kloc. > > 2.6.36 support for ar71xx is out there since Oct 8th. true, but it is not the default. For the record I have tried it and found that it compiles, builds and runs just fine on a Ubiquity Routerstation (not Pro which is not to say it does not run on a pro, simply that I do not have one and have not tested it).
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