Re: [GIT PULL] omap changes for v2.6.39 merge window

[Tony Lindgren]

* 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.

Tony
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