[Buildroot] Patchwork oldest patches cleanup #6 (deadline February 2)

Thomas De Schampheleire patrickdepinguin at gmail.com
Thu Jan 23 14:06:48 UTC 2014


Hi Steve,

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 11:10 PM, Steve Calfee <stevecalfee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Thomas De Schampheleire
> <patrickdepinguin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> Here is session 6 of the patchwork cleanup. For those who haven't
>> followed previous sessions, here is a quick recap: every session we'll
>> be posting the list of the 10 oldest patches, with the original patch
>> contributors in copy. During two weeks, we have the opportunity to
>> discuss the patch, whether it is still necessary or not, how it should
>> be changed to be merged.
>>
>> In particular, I'm interested in knowing if the original contributor is
>> still interested by the patch, or if someone else is interested in
>> adopting the patch and sending an updated version, or if the patch no
>> longer makes sense due to other changes made in Buildroot.
>>
>> All patches that have not received any comment or attention before the
>> deadline will be removed from patchwork. This is aggressive, but we have
>> many 'dead' patches sitting in patchwork, and this cannot work.
>>
>> Deadline for this session is February 2 (FOSDEM + Buildroot developer days!).
>>
> <snip>
>> minimal dockstar setup
>> Steve Calfee <stevecalfee at gmail.com>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/217639
>>
>
> I guess you might as well drop the patch. At the time before rpi, the
> $30 retail dockstar was the cheapest linux computer you could buy. I
> thought others might be interested, but have received no comments, so
> don't bother with this.
>
> It still builds and works fine, but with later kernels beyond 3.6.8 (I
> think) they changed the kernel for device tree, and that broke my
> uboot. Changing uboot is a very dangerous thing, risking bricking the
> dockstar, so I have stopped at that kernel for now. Still a nice NAS
> for home, though.
>

Ok, thanks for the feedback.
I'll mark it as such in patchwork...

Best regards,
Thomas


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