Re: [PATCH]: How to be a kernel driver maintainer

[Joel Becker]

On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >  Alsa, etc. All changes go someplace else before being
> > pushed to the primary kernel tree. 99% of the time, patches are going
> > somewhere else before going into the main kernel. 
> 
> that's different... that's a patch queue. That's not the same as being
> the prime repository.

	As a data point, ocfs2 is dropping its subversion repository and
moving to exactly this model -- ocfs2 development is a set of patches
pending for mainline, with mainline as the prime repository.  Really,
there's no other way to do it.  Otherwise, you get way out of sync.

Joel

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Joel Becker
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Oracle
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