[LEDE-DEV] [RFC] kernel patches cleanup

[Rafał Miłecki]

On 7 August 2017 at 21:20, Philip Prindeville
<philipp_subx at redfish-solutions.com> wrote:
>> On Jul 31, 2017, at 10:11 AM, John Crispin <john at phrozen.org> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I rebased my ages old kernel patch cleanup series. It can be found here [1].
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>> the series annotates all patches and splits them up into 3 folders backports/pending/hacks.
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> What’s the criteria for each?
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> And isn’t “hacks” kind of self-defeating?  If someone submits a PR that adds something to “hacks”, won’t the default position be, “since this is admittedly a hack, it’s not really needed and you should find a more compelling fix”?

Sometimes getting upstream-acceptable solution takes months (or
years), so I'm OK accepting well-described and argumented "hacks".

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Rafał