Re: Forked android kernel development from linux kernel mainline

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 04:44:48PM -0500, Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> Just a small comment to say that Android is not the only one (but
> certainly the most visible, and thus easiest to bash on) not making
> effort to get their stuff in mainline. OpenWRT people are also
> maintaining their fork of the kernel, without even using git, and not
> contributing much to mainline (I'm certainly mistaken on that last
> comment).

Isn't the openwrt stuff just drivers and some arch specific code?
Nothing that is core infrastructure, and nothing preventing them from
submitting the drivers and arch code if they want to, right?

If so, why don't you submit it?  Why don't they?

curious,

greg k-h
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