On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 03:31:05PM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 02:15:04PM +0100, Qais Yousef wrote: > > > Without even looking at the patch set, this is not ok... > > > > Sorry about that. Please keep in mind we're still debating if we want to > > support this upstream. > > What do you mean by this? > > Do you mean you will keep an out-of-tree patchset for all time for all > future kernel versions for everyone to pull from and you will support > for all chips that end up with this type of functionality? > > That's a huge task to do, you all must have a lot of money to burn! >From a maintainer perspective (and not as an Arm employee), hopefully the high cost would be a deterrent to other such hardware combinations in the future ;). Even if it will (likely) end up in mainline, we shouldn't make it straightforward. -- Catalin
