linux-kernel - Re: Possibility for an external staging tree

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Message-ID: <CAB=NE6UF97ETqXXyNFCRRhv=d=AgA=nq3d830uG+pvykAmB2xA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:46:44 -0700
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	Adrian Chadd <adrian@...ebsd.org>, Jouni Malinen <j@...fi>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@...rom.com>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kathy Giori <Kathy.Giori@....qualcomm.com>,
	Yanbo Li <dreamfly281@...il.com>,
	Mathieu Olivari <mathieu@....qualcomm.com>,
	"k.eugene.e" <k.eugene.e@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Possibility for an external staging tree - bring up quality code

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 01:13:23PM -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
>
> <huge snip>
>
>> This has me thinking if it makes sense to have an external driver tree
>> for staging drivers but lead by engineers who already know the rules
>> of upstream, they just want to get things done faster.
>
> That's called a "fork" or "tree" or whatever you want to call it, and
> all of us have them, and end up merging stuff to mainline through them
> eventually.
>
> There is no need to "codify" something that we all have been doing for
> years.  If someone thinks they can "work faster" in their own tree,
> great for them, have them do it.  I don't see what I need to agree or
> disagree with here to keep anyone from doing such a thing.
>
> Or am I just totally missing something here?

OK, yes I think we can work better if we had an external trees for
each driver to cherry pick them as they get sanitized, prior to
upstream for *some* drivers. Very well. I'll simply let vendors /
developers get their 802.11 driver as part of compat-drivers so long
as they maintain their poo.

  Luis
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