[PATCH 2 of 2] cc/gcc: 4.4.5, add arm-softfloat-libgcc patch from buildroot

Arnaud Lacombe lacombar@gmail.com
Wed Nov 10 23:15:00 GMT 2010


Hi,

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 6:06 PM, M P <buserror@gmail.com> wrote:
> The best way to get a patch pushed upstream is to test it downstream.
> The fact it works for me is a starter to eventually get there. Next,
> try it with a few others (crosstool community) and eventually if that
> works, it has a much, much better chance of being taken on upstream in
> any case. But then again, theres still a large chance that a patch
> that is vital to me, and others, never get into the mainstream for
> other reasons. I've seen it many times before.
>
> Your approach might sound like the right thing to you, but it doesn't
> stand the real life test. I've seen many patches that were
> ignored/dumped/refused on completely spurious reasons, and the
> "community" eventually suffers. Heck, I still have a oneliner patch in
> my kernel queue that has been repeatedly refused/ignored by the
> ARM/samsung maintainer with zero reason given, even tho the casework
> is completely bulletproof. And that just "one" case.
>
> Therefore, you are still wrong in wanting to start pushing that upward
> before it's been validated. Bryan has the right approach, and I
> believe Yann also does the right thing on taking on "anything" patches
> -- if they fix a problem -- theres a reason why crosstool is more or
> less the only working cross compilation helper tool out there.
>
This is funny how people who don't know think that's they're always
doing the right thing even if the people who know kept telling them
what they are doing is wrong, which in turn, re-enforce the belief
that they're right. Obvious, really.

 - Arnaud

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