Maemo use cases

Maemo use cases

Posted Nov 13, 2008 15:54 UTC (Thu) by Jaffa (guest, #4327)
In reply to: Maemo use cases by corbet
Parent article: NLUUG/ELCE: Embedded Linux and the community

"make it easier to get your useful changes back into the mainline" is a use case that projects like Maemo should be supporting. Making your kernel sources hard to find does not help in that regard.

Agreed with the first part. The second part is interesting - AIUI (although I'm not a kernel hacker on the Maemo kernel) the Maemo kernel is upstream with limited or no patches.

Nokia primarily do all the kernel work themselves, upstream in the omap tree. Making the kernel sources easier to find (although, come on, from maemo.org it wasn't that hard - the Googability of it notwithstanding) doesn't help get stuff upstream: upstream kernel hackers rarely go scouting around for patches. Instead, they get pushed stuff from people working in those trees day-in, day-out.

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