Re: Git tree for old kernels from before the current tree

On 7/22/07, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> wrote:

These patches are coming from companies that aren't interested in participating in the GPL process but are being forced into releasing code because of the license. Some of them will go out of their way to make the changes difficult to read. All of the patches I am looking at come from embedded systems, many of these systems are still shipping 2.4 kernels.

Most of the patches contain junk, but there are occasional diamonds. One I'm looking at contains code for accessing encryption hardware. The goal is to look at the vendor diffs and see if I can spot anything useful. Spotting something useful can be hard if there are 100,000 lines of noise in the diffs, I'm also trying to spot missing drivers so that we can ask for more code.