Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Request for discussion on when to merge drivers | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:31:34 +1000 |
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> The only slight wrinkle (at least for me) is that often the process of > cleaning up a driver is fairly intensive for a maintainer and turn > around is a lot faster if you're doing it in a tree you control. (All > the scsi drivers we've done like this have lived in temporary branches > while they were being worked on). So perhaps in addition we should be > encouraging maintainers to run staging branches under similar rules in > the staging tree, but allowing inclusion into linux-next?
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linux-next should, imho, exclusively be for things we are pretty much commited to merge in the next release. ie, a staging place to fixup things like build breakages, patch conflicts, etc...
Or else, it will just be another -mm ....
So while what you say makes sense, I think we should only put drivers in once we have pretty much decided that the drivers in question would be merged... in which case, why not straight upstream ?
Cheers, Ben.
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