Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751222AbWAIJvi (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:51:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751227AbWAIJvh (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:51:37 -0500 Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.122.30]:61800 "EHLO rgminet01.oracle.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751222AbWAIJvg (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2006 04:51:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 01:51:08 -0800 From: Joel Becker To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: Ben Collins , Linux Kernel Development , Linus Torvalds , mark.fasheh@oracle.com Subject: Re: [PATCH]: How to be a kernel driver maintainer Message-ID: <20060109095108.GH18439@ca-server1.us.oracle.com> Mail-Followup-To: Arjan van de Ven , Ben Collins , Linux Kernel Development , Linus Torvalds , mark.fasheh@oracle.com References: <1136736455.24378.3.camel@grayson> <1136737997.2955.10.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <1136744870.1043.4.camel@grayson> <1136745838.2955.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1136745838.2955.17.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> X-Burt-Line: Trees are cool. X-Red-Smith: Ninety feet between bases is perhaps as close as man has ever come to perfection. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1137 Lines: 32 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 -- "The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire." - thomas carlyle Joel Becker Principal Software Developer Oracle E-mail: joel.becker@oracle.com Phone: (650) 506-8127 - 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/