On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Trent Piepho wrote: > On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > > > Beside the fact that we don't need to strip support for legacy kernels, > > > the > > > advantage of using this method is that we can evolute to a new development > > > model. As several developers already required, we should really use the > > > standard -git tree as everybody's else. This will simplify a lot the way > > > we > > > work, and give us more agility to send patches upstream. > > > > > > With this backport script, plus the current v4l-dvb building systems, and > > > after > > > having all backport rules properly mapped, we can generate a "test tree" > > > based on -git drivers/media, for the users to test the drivers against > > > their > > > kernels, and still use a clean tree for development. > > > > Sorry, switching to git is great, but just to make sure I understood you > > right: by "-git drivers/media" you don't mean it is going to be a git tree > > of only drivers/media, but it is going to be a normal complete Linux > > kernel tree, right? > > So there will be no way we can test a driver without switching to a new > kernel hourly? And there is no way we can test someone else's tree without > compiling an entirely new kernel and rebooting? And every tree we want to > work on requires a complete copy of the entire kernel source?
AFAIR, Mauro wanted to provide snapshots for those who absolutely prefer to work with partial trees. Although, to be honest, I don't understand what makes video drivers so special. Think about audio drivers, or network, including WLAN. I never heard about those subsystems working with or providing subtree snapshots. If only before specific drivers or subsystems are included in the mainline, but not long after that. Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
