ping! :) bye as
On 07/20/2011 12:32 PM, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > I see, for some reason there is a patch backported from 2.6.38 > (77f431561ef97dda1d6e9a96da8d342046fbdba0), I am not sure why. I will > see if I can remove as it is cosmetic only, but let me ask: > > as this patch is specific for this board/SoC (won't interfere with other > boards), and it comes directly from the manufacturer - it is public code at: > http://git.stlinux.com/?p=spear/linux-2.6.git;a=summary > it has been *validated* by a test team and so on; why OpenWRT requires > to remove modifications to generic stuff? It would be almost impossible > to maintain for me, everytime they have an update. Of course I modified > this patch slightly to be able to apply OpenWRT generic patches - is > that not enough? > > Eventually, the SPEAr support will go in the mainline kernel, removing > the necessity for this patch at all, but although there is some support > in the newest vanilla kernels, it is not quite ready yet. > > bye > as > > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
