On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:34:33PM -0400, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > thanks. > Since we haven't yet branched lmsensors, we have some things to decide > before I apply this patch. > Namely, do we do another 2.4-compatible release. > I'm in favor of at least one more, because I would like to clear up some > problems in 2.7.0. > The problems are really on the i2c side though. > > I just studied up on CVS merging. It appears that you can only merge from > the branch to the trunk? > In i2c, 2.4 is the branch and 2.5 is the trunk. I want to get some changes > from > the trunk (for example new ID's in i2c-id.h) over to the 2.4 branch before > we > do a release from the 2.4 branch. > > Let's decide what we want to do. I just went through 36 tickets covering > almost 4 weeks. > > Phil? Mark H? others? comments please Why even worry about a 2.5 and onward version of the CVS tree? Why not just use CVS for 2.4 and older, and use the in-kernel tree version of the sensors and i2c code for that stuff? If not, it's a lot of work to try to keep up with all of the other changes to the code, and placing it backwards into the cvs tree. thanks, greg k-h
