linux-kernel - ldp/staging/driver-core (Was: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 11)

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Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:05:20 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: ldp/staging/driver-core (Was: Re: linux-next: Tree for June 11)

Hi Greg,

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:55:27 -0700 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 07:38:40PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Changes since next-20080610:
> > 
> > Dropped trees (temporary): ldp (it is unfetchable - probably something to
> > do with the new Staging tree), block (it just has too many conflicts and
> > breaks the powerpc build).
> 
> Yes, I've dropped "ldp" from my 'gregkh' set of patches/trees, they
> should be pulled in from the -staging tree, which would be great if you
> could add to the end of the -next tree.

I was under the impression that the stuff in the ldp tree was for
inclusion in 2.6.27.  If so, then that tree should still exist (for
inclusion in linux-next) or the drivers that were in the ldp tree should
be included in some other tree(s) that is (are) included in linux-next
(Staging is for stuff that isn't ready yet, right?).

I will try to figure out what I think about Staging today.

> I've also removed some of the larger patches in the driver-core tree
> that were causing you merge/build errors, they should be all resolved
> now.

Thanks, but a better plan (which I hope you and Kay have considered) is
to break up the ones that only depeneded on dev_name and dev_set_name and
send the parts to the appropriate subsystems (since dev_name and
dev_set_name) are both in upstream now).

/me teaches grandma how to suck eggs :-)
-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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