Dominique Dumont wrote: > Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > IMHO the question is if CVS should work with the latest -rc or with > > the latest "stable" kernel. We might get more testers for the stuff in > > CVS if it applies to stable, but it is unconvenient for developers... > > > I vote to merge it now and require 2.6.12-r1 for CVS. > > I'm a dvb tester (and newbie developer now) for Twinhan card. I use > my *only* home machine for dvb so I'm not really thrilled at the idea > of using -rc kernel. > > If CVS requires -rc kernel, I'll wait for this kernel to be available > as source kernel in debian unstable distro before updating my CVS > directories. Well, 2.6.12 seems to be not that far away, I guess we'll wait for that. > If you go along with requiring -rc kernel (hoping this kind of > requirement will happen only every now and then), please use an > explicit tag in CVS so I'll be able to know easily when a new revision > will not work with my stable kernel. (or tag the latest version > working with stable 2.6.x) I guess I'll rather provide a patchset the way Gerd Knorr does/did for v4l. Johannes
