Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: bluetooth: Add hci_h4p driver | From | Bastien Nocera <> | Date | Sun, 14 Dec 2014 14:18:39 +0100 |
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On Sun, 2014-12-14 at 11:40 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sun 2014-12-14 00:30:13, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > > Hi Pavel, > > > > > Add hci_h4p bluetooth driver to staging tree. This device is used > > > for example on Nokia N900 cell phone. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> > > > Thanks-to: Sebastian Reichel <sre@debian.org> > > > Thanks-to: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> > > > > > > --- > > > > > > > > > I'd prefer to resurect the driver in staging/ in order not to lose > > > history, but Marcel wanted to treat it as new submission, so I'm doing > > > that. > > > > that history is in linux.git now for all times. No need to repeat it. I rather not play around with that again. Lets get a minimal driver merged so we can give people something to improve. > > > > We will merge minimum version. Still I'd like complete history for > credits and bisect and easy ability to diff original and minimum > version.
FWIW, I found that developing the driver outside of the main kernel tree for merge is the best way to keep a history that's not too interesting in the kernel tree.
Something like: https://github.com/hadess/gt9xx will allow small reversible commits, make it easy to branch for testing (say a bug crops up, create a branch, fix the bug, get somebody to test it, merge to master, and copy/paste the files to the upstream git tree for inclusion).
Of course, in your case you might need to create a backport for the whole bluetooth sub-system, as it uses internal API, which makes it harder. But it's still viable for large cleanups, and pre-merge changes while keeping history.
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