On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Beside the fact that we don't need to strip support for legacy kernels, the > advantage of using this method is that we can evolute to a new development > model. As several developers already required, we should really use the > standard -git tree as everybody's else. This will simplify a lot the way we > work, and give us more agility to send patches upstream. > > With this backport script, plus the current v4l-dvb building systems, and after > having all backport rules properly mapped, we can generate a "test tree" > based on -git drivers/media, for the users to test the drivers against their > kernels, and still use a clean tree for development. Sorry, switching to git is great, but just to make sure I understood you right: by "-git drivers/media" you don't mean it is going to be a git tree of only drivers/media, but it is going to be a normal complete Linux kernel tree, right? Thanks Guennadi --- Guennadi Liakhovetski, Ph.D. Freelance Open-Source Software Developer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
