Hi Daniel, On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:46:53PM +0100, John Crispin wrote: > > zoltan maintains the sunxi target. he might already have done work on > > this and might have some updates or whatever that he plans to > > incorporate. bumping a kernel maintained actively always has the risk > > of duplicating work and / or doing superfluous work > > Well, yes, that's why I put Zoltan on CC for that patch (you can't > see that as the list server apparently removes CC's if the receiver > is among the list subscribers). > > And sure, he might already have it ready himself or do things as he > likes to, e.g. more testing on all boards before pushing the commit. > I did this bump to 3.19 this morning because I was impatient to see if > framebuffer works as it was promissed for 3.19 on sun7i. And it does. > I was happy to see that and felt that it may make sense to publish my > results. > > Note that my motivation when porting the patches was my own curiosity > and it was fun doing it -- no matter, if any picks them up or not. > Just in case Zoltan starts working on 3.19 tomorrow, he'll already have > a reference point to start with. > If he already got it ready and just wants to do more testing before > pushing the commit -- fine, this might have been "a waste of time" when > looking at it from an economic point of view. Just that my motiviation > was self-education rather than just using my time as efficient as I can. > > Is there anything wrong with that? > Or did anyone feel offended by that?
Not at all. Please continue with good work. I only wish I've seen your patch sooner ;) Luka _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
