Status of arch/arm in linux-next

[Mark Brown]

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 03:31:27PM +0300, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> I think that 6k lines of new code should wait in the platform specific
> trees and not get merged until we have some real progress on the
> consolidation of code.

> We should make it clear that we're not merging new code except for code
> consolidation. Looks like some people have missed it despite the
> massive flaming.

Personally I had formed the impression that this was an understandable
reaction on the part of Russell that he was applying to his own trees
rather than a general policy that was being applied over all of arch/arm.

I think we need to give people a tractable route to addressing the
consolidation issues with the code they're trying to contribute before
we start rejecting code.  If we can identify something useful that
people can do that's in some way related to what they're trying to
accomplish that's constructive and likely to inspire contributions to
the consolidation efforts but if we're rejecting the code without
any route to improving it that's much less so.