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SubjectRe: Request for discussion on when to merge drivers
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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?

.../...

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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