On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:52:09 +0100 (CET) Guennadi Liakhovetski <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > everyone who has once got his or her patch committed to v4l received an > auto-reply > > From: Patch added by Xxxxx Xxxxx <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > > with a comment: > (text moved to the end, to make easier for me to comment) > > What does this mean? Does the last sentence refer to "patches may be > modified" or to "patch was added"? And why should objections against > either of them be sent to the maintainer instead of being discussed on the > list? Don't understand. Does it mean that if a specific author has > objections, the respective driver can be left off from the > backwards-compatibility conversions? This message is there to advice that: > <quote> > The patch number NNNN was added via name <[email protected]> > to http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb master development tree. 1) The patch were accepted by the maintainer and are at the tree for testing purposes; > Kernel patches in this development tree may be modified to be backward > compatible with older kernels. Compatibility modifications will be > removed before inclusion into the mainstream Kernel 2) on a few cases where: a) the patch was generated against -git tree and needs some compat code to compile on -hg, or b) the patch adds some compat code This warns that the compat code will be removed by ./v4l/scripts/gentree.pl script when generating the -git patch; > If anyone has any objections, please let us know by sending a message to: > [email protected] > </quote> 3) People may review the patch (since the -hg tree is just a staging tree). Btw, the email need to change, since it should use Linux Media Mailing List <[email protected]> Instead of the previous one. Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
