Merging Allwinner support

I read this from the other side of the curtain in the arm-netbook archives where messages were also being copied, and although it's possible to take the "who does the guy think he is?" position, I think by just considering this as a kernel mailing list phenomenon it misses a great deal of context. Nevertheless, the whole issue may have been a storm in a teacup.

(As for the "bad mouthing", maybe there's an ongoing lack of diplomatic tact here, but that doesn't mean that diplomacy in some form isn't being exercised. People seem to think that when some political leader openly berates some other entity - frequently the USA - that diplomacy has failed, but outbursts and performances also serve various purposes and don't always indicate a breakdown in communications.)

The wider issue as far as I can see, not adequately addressed by any claims of kernel development maturity (and outsider/vendor immaturity), is that there are lots of different projects straddling the software/hardware divide and much less collaboration than would be desirable to avoid issues like this and indeed many others.