On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote: > This tree will be included in the daily linux-next builds, and will get > testing by all users of that tree. > > The rules of what can be included here is as follows: > - the code must be released under a Linux kernel-compatible > license > - the goal of the developers must be to merge this code into the > main kernel tree in the near future, but not for the next > kernel release. > - the code must build properly on the x86 platform > - this is not a tree for bugfixes or rewrites of existing kernel > code, this should be for new features, drivers, and > filesystems. > - the patches included must detail exactly what is needed to be > completed in order for them to be included into the main > kernel tree. > - there must be some email address associated with the patch > that can be used for bug reporting and questions about > cleanups and testing the code. > > What this tree is not: > - it is not a place to dump features that are being actively > developed by a community of people (reiserfs4 for example.) > - it is not a place to dump code and then run away, hoping that > someone else will do the cleanup work for you. While there > are developers available to do this kind of work, you need to > get someone to agree to "babysit" the code. Would the linux-staging tree be an appropriate place to merge a new architecture? Or would that be too large a change and should go via its own tree?
