On 07-02-08 12:27, Takashi Iwai wrote: > BTW, one big annoying thing is that developers have no complete kernel > tree to access, and thus the patches that touch outside the ALSA > subdirectory cannot be merged easily. People often send patches > fixing together with OSS, etc, and I had to skip them. So, frankly, > I'd love to have an access to the whole kernel tree. But, OTOH, this > would make harder for other naive guys to give it a try because they > need to download the big linux kernel tree git. > > Maybe we can think reversely. Keep the kernel git tree as the primary > development tree and generate the subset as the alsa-kernel package > from the kernel tree automatically. In this way, you can avoid also > sign-off messes, too. This sounds good... > In this scheme, you don't have to stick with stgit. The normal git > can handle patches well enough (via occasional rebase), and it's much > much faster than stgit. Of course, stgit is still good for small > number of patches, but it's not true for shared devel trees. Rene. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
