linux-kernel - Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?

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Message-ID: <3aaafc130811131625l4a1e4b3ck72f9041a8159b599@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:25:29 -0500
From:	"J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Stephen Rothwell" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 07:13:40PM -0500, J.R. Mauro wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>> > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:44:21AM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>> >> Hi Greg,
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:56:00 -0800 Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > I'm starting to get people sending me patches against -next for the
>> >> > drivers/staging/ tree that don't apply as -next does not include my
>> >> > quilt tree of staging patches.
>> >> >
>> >> > Can you please pick it up?  You can put it at the end of your series,
>> >> > and the 'make allmodconfig' option disables building anything in the
>> >> > drivers/staging/ subdirectory, so it should not have any build or merge
>> >> > conflicts with anything.
>> >> >
>> >> > It can be found at:
>> >> >     http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/gregkh-05-staging/
>> >> > and is a quilt tree.
>> >> >
>> >> > It will follow all the same rules as other trees, with patches only for
>> >> > the next merge window (2.6.29 right now) in it.
>> >>
>> >> OK, I have added it starting today.
>> >
>> > Thank you very much, I appreciate it.
>>
>> Greg, will this suffice for having a git repo for staging, or are you
>> still planning on a discrete staging repo?
>
> For now, this is probably going to be sufficient for me, how about you?

Should work fine

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>
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