Re: how quickly do PA-RISC patches make it to mainstream kernel?
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:29:24PM -0800, Randolph Chung wrote:
> Never, probably.
I wouldn't be that pessismistic. As you noted, some of the changes
certainly won't go upstream...but I expect the non-parisc diff to
shrink as changes from 2.6 are backported into 2.4 or or no longer
need changes like the driver updates I added.
> Most of the kernel developers are concentrated on 2.6.
> There's not a lot of interest to merge 2.4 stuff upstream.
If Martin is interested, he should do the work to generate
and test the patches on ia32. Speaking only for myself,
it's not a priority since the CVS tree "Works For Me" (tm).
> Besides,
> there are some hacks in the pa tree that cannot be merged upstream
> anyway.
I agree...unless someone puts alot of effort into resolving those
issues.
grant
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