Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] Request for discussion on when to mergedrivers

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Wed Jun 18 2008 - 19:20:28 EST


On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, Benny Halevy wrote:

Exposing the not-yet-ready-to-be-released code to linux-next will expose conflicts earlier, and hopefully in smaller, more manageable deltas.

I like the way linux-next works now, i.e. it should reflect what is going into the next major kernel release. Nothing more, nothing less.

Also, when talking about entirely new drivers for hardware that hasn't been supported by the kernel at all so far (this is the situation we are talking about, right?), there shouldn't be a lot of conflicts to be dealt with, right? Ideally, drivers should be pretty isolated standalone pieces of code that don't have any business changing any code that has been already there.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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