Hi Russ,

I appreciate it that you're giving some consideration the issue (of out-of-tree 
maintenance cost).  I have felt this pain a lot over the last few months, and, 
with rxk5, it's been a multi-year process...

Matt


----- "Russ Allbery" <[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> This means that maintaining a large monolithic patch set outside of
> the
> tree is going to require constant and significant rebasing.  You want
> to
> get self-contained portions of it into the tree as soon as possible
> so
> that everyone shares the work instead of having to keep it current
> outside
> the tree.
> 
> Also, we may be doing some global cleanups in the future.  We'll try
> to
> warn everyone in advance and discuss that on the list, particularly if
> it
> will cause significant problems for pending out-of-tree patches.
> 
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