Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751282AbVLCVhV (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:37:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751284AbVLCVhV (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:37:21 -0500 Received: from anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.85]:43271 "EHLO anchor-post-35.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751282AbVLCVhU (ORCPT ); Sat, 3 Dec 2005 16:37:20 -0500 Message-ID: <4392100E.6070303@superbug.demon.co.uk> Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 21:37:18 +0000 From: James Courtier-Dutton User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "M." CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jesper Juhl , Adrian Bunk Subject: Re: RFC: Starting a stable kernel series off the 2.6 kernel References: <20051203135608.GJ31395@stusta.de> <9a8748490512030629t16d0b9ebv279064245743e001@mail.gmail.com> <20051203201945.GA4182@kroah.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1271 Lines: 28 M. wrote: > > Yes but not home users with relatively new/bleeding edge hardware or > small projects writing for example a wifi driver or a security patch > or whatever without full time commitment to tracking kernel changes. > If there are "small projects writing" their own wifi driver, they should try to get it included in the kernel ASAP. Then they won't have to track the changes, as the person making the changes will automatically change their little driver to keep it working after the changes. Drivers very rarely impact the stability of the rest of the kernel. It initially gets added as "EXPERIMENTAL" so the user can choose whether to even use it or not. All it takes is for the "small project" to build their own git tree, and then ask the Linus or Andrew to pull it. It should get added pretty easily, so long as the code looks pretty. :-) It is really that simple. There is no logical reason for any external driver not to be added into the main kernel, so why do people not want to add them? James - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/