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SubjectRe: Can you add the staging tree to -next?
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> I'm starting to get people sending me patches against -next for the
> drivers/staging/ tree that don't apply as -next does not include my
> quilt tree of staging patches.
>
> Can you please pick it up? You can put it at the end of your series,
> and the 'make allmodconfig' option disables building anything in the
> drivers/staging/ subdirectory, so it should not have any build or merge
> conflicts with anything.

Apart from the patches you receive against -next, is there any other
advantage, giving staging is disabled?

> It can be found at:
> http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-staging/
> and is a quilt tree.
>
> It will follow all the same rules as other trees, with patches only for
> the next merge window (2.6.29 right now) in it.

Except that there's much less compile-coverage, as allmodconfig doesn't enable
staging.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds


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