Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:02:12 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: OOM panics with zram |
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On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 12:30:39AM -0400, Nitin Gupta wrote: > > So, should I delete the version in staging, or are you going to send > > patches to sync it up with your development version? > > > > Deleting it from staging would not help much. Much more helpful would > be to sync at least the mainline and linux-next version of the driver > so it's easier to develop against these kernel trees. Initially, I > thought -staging means that any reviewed change can quickly make it > to *both* linux-next and more importantly -staging in mainline.
It makes it quickly to linux-next, right?
Nothing goes "quickly" to mainline, other than the normal development process, which is well documented as to how it all works.
> Working/ Testing against mainline is much smoother than against > linux-next.
Sure it's "easier", but that's not how kernel development is done, sorry. See Documentation/development-process/ for details.
thanks,
greg k-h
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