Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:42:48 +0100 (CET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next? |
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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
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