On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [110330 15:22]: > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > > > * Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [110330 14:07]: > > > > > > > > So one person will be not enough, that needs to be a whole team of > > > > experienced people in the very near future to deal with the massive > > > > tsunami of crap which is targeted at mainline. If we fail to set that > > > > up, then we run into a very ugly maintainability issue in no time. > > > > > > One thing that will help here and distribute the load is to move > > > more things under drivers/ as then we have more maintainers looking > > > at the code. > > > > Guess what's that going to solve? Nothing, nada. > > > > Really, you move the problem to people who are not prepared to deal > > with the wave either. So what's the gain? > > I guess my point is that with creating more common frameworks people > will be using common code. Some examples that come to mind are clock > framework, gpiolib, dma engine, runtime PM and so on. For all that to happen you need a really experienced team with a strong team lead to fight that through and go through the existing horror while dealing with the incoming flood at the same time. See commit 9ad198cb for illustration. Sigh, I fought that battle for a couple of month to deal with shite coming in faster than you can fix it and everyone ignoring it. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
