> "Phillip" == Phillip Lougher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi,
Phillip> It only uses a relatively small subset of the VFS, and goes
Phillip> nowhere near the MTD subsystem. Recently dusting off an MTD
Phillip> patch I wrote for Squashfs a couple of years ago, I found it
Phillip> had to b
Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Charles Manning wrote:
Luckily APIs for drivers (the most common stuff that people work on) don't
change that much, and the interfaces are reasonably clear. If you want some
hell then try working on file systems :-).
Really? So how come so few c
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:02 +1200, Charles Manning wrote:
>
> In-tree is no silver bullet.
>
> When people modify internal APIs they will likely fix anything that breaks
> compilation. However many things are more subtle than that and it is very
> easy to end up with a driver or other code that
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 10:46 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Really? So how come so few changes are needed to keep squashfs
> working?
It's read-only.
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On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Charles Manning wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2008 17:15:01 vb wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Paul Gortmaker
> >
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >> so, say a developer submits a proprietary
On Wednesday 20 August 2008 17:15:01 vb wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Paul Gortmaker
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> so, say a developer submits a proprietary driver and it gets accepted.
> >
> > Doesn't happen. By
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 1:10 AM, Haavard Skinnemoen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Would such a driver be accepted? Wouldn't such a driver get stale
>> after a few kernel releases?
>
> Yes, the kernel contains tons of such platform-specific drivers. No, it
> won't get
vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Would such a driver be accepted? Wouldn't such a driver get stale
> after a few kernel releases?
Yes, the kernel contains tons of such platform-specific drivers. No, it
won't get stale as long as someone who has access to the hardware is
willing to test a -rc kernel
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> so, say a developer submits a proprietary driver and it gets accepted.
>
> Doesn't happen. By design. If the driver is proprietary then it is
> presu
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:57:59PM -0700, vb wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Paul Gortmaker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David VomLehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in
> >> the
>
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:57 PM, vb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Paul Gortmaker
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David VomLehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in th
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Paul Gortmaker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David VomLehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in the
>> kernel mainline. I expect I will be asked to tell them how much w
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 2:01 PM, David VomLehn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in the
> kernel mainline. I expect I will be asked to tell them how much work this
> is. What do we need to do to add a new MIPS platform?
Based on the
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:01:30AM -0700, David VomLehn wrote:
> I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in
> the kernel mainline. I expect I will be asked to tell them how much work
> this is. What do we need to do to add a new MIPS platform?
Basically a patchset
I'm working to educate our management on the need to get our platform in the
kernel mainline. I expect I will be asked to tell them how much work this is.
What do we need to do to add a new MIPS platform?
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