On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:34:18AM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote: > Ben Dooks wrote: > > > > I find that git is not really suited to this kind of development, whilst > > it does its job for the kernel maintainers, I belive it isn't really what > > is needed when developing for a new hardware platform. > > > > The first problem is that git seems to require a centralised point > > of management for patches, and secondly, would you really want to pull > > a tree with hundreds of internal development changes? > > > > Indeed I do ;) > > OLPC actually keeps all the stuff in a git repo. There are some different > branches when excursions are needed, but in general there is just the one. I > don't know how much work Andres Salomon (which is the resident janitor) has > keeping it tidy, but as a developer I've found it quite easy to work with. > > > > > I am interested in what comments you have about it, it did not > > look too bad the last time I cast my eyes over it. > > > > To be honest, I haven't looked at the one you have. I have looked at the one > TomTom ships though and it's ifdef galore. That might be the norm when it > comes > to embedded stuff, but to in my eyes it's messy as hell. ;)
Hmm, I don't rember that... I don't like #ifdefs either. There may be several versions of the driver flying around, I know h1940 has one. -- Ben Q: What's a light-year? A: One-third less calories than a regular year.
