New comment by CameronNemo on void-packages repository

https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/41062#issuecomment-1434123591

Comment:
>From what I can tell, Manjaro is currently, and has been, actively upstreaming their own patches

Yeah, no. They upstream some, sometimes. Mostly they pull in patches that will never be accepted upstream, like the altmode DP patches.

>Is your position that the pinebookpro-kernel template should never include any patches beyond those made to our linuxX.Y templates? If so, why are we using the pinebookpro-kernel template, in the first place?

Yeah I think we should be removing patches and eventually get rid of the device specific kernel. Debian, for example, supports the PBP but uses their generic ARM64 kernel to do so. PostmarketOS has a [linux-postmarketos-rockchip package](https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/blob/master/device/community/linux-postmarketos-rockchip/APKBUILD) that is a completely unpatched kernel, which they use for the PBP and some other Rockchip devices.

>why are 5 out of 6 patches in the pinebookpro-kernel template now seemingly from a nearly 2-year old version of Manjaro?

They cannot be upstreamed or were never submitted, but fix issues that I could personally reproduce.

>one of the latest pbp-specific Manjaro-origin patches

By "latest", I hope you realize that is a patch that was written 9 months ago and never sent upstream. Send it upstream! If they accept it, you can pull it in without me objecting. I have personally never run into any issues with the microSD card slot, and I have used a variety of microSD cards. Maybe I am lucky? Are you actually seeing errors with the microSD card slot? I've not heard anyone complain who uses Void.