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

[Thomas Gleixner]

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



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