[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > > I regard the linux-mips.org CVS as MIPS upstream, and I don't want to > > handle patch conflicts with architectures I know nothing about. > > Apparently your regard does not extend to looking what's really in there. > Care to check the diff between linux-mips repository and upstream?
I did. Most of it are mips-specific drivers so far. [snip] > Please, have at least some respect to mips guys I surely have. :-) > - they know what they are > doing and talk about "patch conflicts with architectures you know nothing > about" is a BS. Their stuff is well-behaving and localized enough to avoid > that. I specifically meant patch conflicts between non-mainline architectures. Those happen (-ed for 2.4) increasingly after the main tree went into maintenance mode, caused by shrinking acceptance for patches with (potential) side effects. For the current Debian scheme with separate arch-specific patches, this is simply a problem avoided. Thiemo
