Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:03:28 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: Future of the -longterm kernel releases (i.e. how we pick them). |
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 09:49:22PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote: > On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:33:05AM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote: > >> As far as long-term kernels goes, from the Android perspective we > >> strongly prefer to snap up to the most recent released kernel on every > >> platform/device release. I prefer to be as up to date on bugfixes and > >> features from mainline as possible and minimize the deltas on our > >> stack 'o patches as much as possible. > > > > That's good to hear. > > > >> We've been getting more aggressive about merging in the -rc#s and then > >> rebasing on the final during development (before final stabilization > >> freeze for a release) in the last year or so, and it seems to work > >> pretty well. > > > > Is your kernel git tree public during this merge cycle so that others > > can track it? I tried to dig through android.kernel.org but there are a > > lot of different kernel trees there :( > > We really need a "which branch is which" quick guide that's easily > findable. kernel/common is always where our generic patch stack > lives, and it looks like android-3.0 is the most recent (which has > 3.0.1 merged in). > > http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=summary
Thanks for the pointer.
If you ever get such a quick guide, I'd appreciate a link to it.
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