[Arm-netbook] getting allwinner SoC support upstream (was Re: Uploading linux (3.9.4-1))

[Stephen Warren]

On 06/07/2013 02:02 AM, luke.leighton wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux at arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> 
>> If companies are going to go off and invent the square wheel, and that
>> makes *them* suffer the loss of being able to merge back into the
>> mainline kernel, thereby making *their* job of moving forward with
>> their kernel versions much harder, then yes, we *are* happy.
> 
>  russell: they have more employees than sense :)  they also don't have
> any idea of what they *should* be doing, so this is an opportunity to
> educate them.

You know, they're probably reading this thread, and if not, they
certainly can in the list archives. It's probably not a good idea to
slag them off like that, and like other comments in this thread...