On Monday 11 June 2012 15:44:50 Paul Bolle wrote:
> On Sun, 2012-06-10 at 23:05 -0400, Zhang, Sonic wrote:
> > The IPIPE patch is part of the ADEOS real time kernel patch. The
> > common part of this patch hasn't been merged into mainline by the
> > maintainer Philippe Gerum, although the Blackfin architecture part
> > was. The relative Kbuild support and Kconfig symbols are defined in
> > the ADOES common patch.
> 
> What's the point of having code in the mainline tree, for over three
> years, without any Kbuild or Kconfig support?

because the Blackfin team cares about keeping ADEOS active throughout the 
rewrites/updates of core code.  it isn't hurting keeping the code in the 
arch/blackfin/ tree, and we're ok with any overhead it implies for the team.
-mike