On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 03:47:52PM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > * Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [110330 15:35]: > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 02:54:35PM -0700, 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. > > > > In many cases, the ARM SoC vendors will want their people producing the > > code, so although moving things to drivers might be a good thing to do, > > it won't really increase the number of people involved. Plus the move > > to the drivers subtree would be a problem for devices with tight ties > > to the board or SoC. > > > > There is work on pushing towards common code, but there is a lot of code > > and this will take time and a lot of work. > > I agree on the common code part, then even drivers with tight > ties to board or SoC become just generic drivers that are easy > to review. Yep! The trick is getting to that point. Some drivers will be easier than others. Thanx, Paul -- 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
