On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 09:07:28AM +0100, Jaap-Jan Boor wrote: > On Mar 23, 2004, at 19:24, Dan Malek wrote: > > >Jaap-Jan Boor wrote: > > > >>from what 'official ppc' tree do patches eventually get into the > >>official linux kernel tree(s) at kernel.org? > >>only linuxppc-2.4? Or all? > > > >It seems to be a circuitous route that I don't even understand > >anymore. Sometime stuff I check in gets there, sometimes not. :-) > > and you have never found out the conditions when something > get's in (only when submitted at friday the 13th or something?)
Um, yeah. I'm hoping 2.6 will be different from 2.4 in that regard. :) > >http://penguinppc.org/dev/kernel.shtml tries to explain it. > > > this states you should build/submit patches against kernel.org's > trees, which is quite different from linuxppc-2.[45], which is probably > Tom Rini's checkout of kernel.org's tree with all ppc patches. > Or is it? linuxppc-2.[45] are children of the linux-2.[45] trees, and contain stuff that's not quite ready to go out, _but_will_be_soon_ or has been put in a tree for Linus/Marcelo, but they haven't pulled yet. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
