Re: how quickly do PA-RISC patches make it to mainstream kernel?

To: Martin-?ric Racine <q-funk@pp.fishpool.fi>
Cc: debian-hppa@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: how quickly do PA-RISC patches make it to mainstream kernel?
From: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 21:29:24 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] 20031203052924.GE20133@tausq.org>
Reply-to: Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
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> On average, how far behind is the PA-RISC integration in the mainstream kernel?  
> For instance, when can I expect 2.4.22-pa17 to have been merged by upstream?  
> Will that show up in the 2.4.23 mainstream vanilla kernel, or only in 2.4.24?

Never, probably. Most of the kernel developers are concentrated on 2.6.
There's not a lot of interest to merge 2.4 stuff upstream. Besides,
there are some hacks in the pa tree that cannot be merged upstream
anyway.

randolph
-- 
Randolph Chung
Debian GNU/Linux Developer, hppa/ia64 ports
http://www.tausq.org/

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