AFK last weekend, sorry... * Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> [2003-04-28 09:58:26 -0700]: > On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 08:34:33PM -0400, Mark D. Studebaker wrote: > > 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. Seconded. > > 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. Why not this? http://www.loria.fr/~molli/cvs/doc/cvs_5.html#SEC57 > 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? Won't we still need to branch lmsensors for userspace? > 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. Regards, -- Mark M. Hoffman mhoffman at lightlink.com
