Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2006 01:51:08 -0800 | From | Joel Becker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: How to be a kernel driver maintainer |
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On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > Alsa, etc. All changes go someplace else before being > > pushed to the primary kernel tree. 99% of the time, patches are going > > somewhere else before going into the main kernel. > > that's different... that's a patch queue. That's not the same as being > the prime repository.
As a data point, ocfs2 is dropping its subversion repository and moving to exactly this model -- ocfs2 development is a set of patches pending for mainline, with mainline as the prime repository. Really, there's no other way to do it. Otherwise, you get way out of sync.
Joel
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