Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 10 Jun 2008 18:52:22 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created |
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On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 12:05:40PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > PURPOSE > > The linux-staging tree was created to hold drivers and filesystems and > other semi-major additions to the Linux kernel that are not ready to be > merged at this point in time. It is here for companies and authors to > get a wider range of testing, and to allow for other members of the > community to help with the development of these features for the > eventual inclusion into the main kernel tree. > > This tree will be included in the daily linux-next builds, and will get > testing by all users of that tree.
Does this mean that the nature of linux-next is changing? I thought the whole point of linux-next was only to have what would be pushed to Linus in the near future, so we could check for patch compatibility issues. For that reason, for example, I don't push the unstable set of patches in the ext4 tree to linux-next, since they aren't ready for merging yet in their current form.
But if linux-staging is going to be pushed to linux-next, doesn't that violate the ground rules of Linux-next? Or are we allowing in this case because these are filesystems and/or device drivers that don't exist at all in the mainline tree yet?
- Ted
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