staging/dream header file

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Mon Sep 14 22:17:05 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 03:14:50PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 04:07:21PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote:
> >> We actually are very interested, but are not likely to have
> >> significant time to devote to this until mid-late october due to
> >> schedule pressure for various shipping-this-fall projects.  We tend to
> >> have a bit of a lull between October and January and my hope is to get
> >> a bunch of patches cleaned up and out there in this timeframe -- we'll
> >> also be rebasing our development branches on the latest mainline
> >> kernel during this time.
> >>
> >> I'm also working to get an engineer dedicated (20% or more time) to
> >> contribution-to-mainline efforts on an on-going basis in the near
> >> future, to help improve responsiveness here.
> >
> > Ok, thanks for letting me know, I'll hold off removing them for .32, but
> > if by the time the .33 merge window opens up and there is no change,
> > I'll remove them.  Sound reasonable?
> 
> Hi Greg, Pavel,
> 
> I'd like to introduce Petri Gynther, who will is going to be working
> on android->mainline kernel effort from our side (other folks from our
> side will be involved as well, but Petri is the point guy right now).
> He's initially going to be doing a rebase of our 2.6.29 work trees to
> 2.6.31 so our codebase is up to date with .31 and then his priority is
> to get patches going upstream, aiming at closing the gap between our
> work tree and mainline.

Great!

Hi Petri, good luck with this :)

Please work toward resolving the conflicts with any changes you all have
done in your trees with the code that is already in the kernel.org tree
in drivers/staging/android/.  Getting that straightened out first would
be the best thing.

thanks,

greg k-h



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