On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:58:36PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > Again, i, as the pegasos upstream and the > > > powerpc kernel maintainer, take the responsability for this, so i > > > believe it is ok for inclusion in the debian powerpc kernel package. I > > > > You abuse your position as powerpc kernel maintainer to get your > > pet patches in without proper review. > > I wouldn't be as harsh as Christoph here but I do agree on the > principle. I have a long experience of dealing diverging kernel trees > and beleive me, that's not a path we want to go through. Even if we > decide to keep per-arch kernel packages, we should at least do the > maximum to have all patches in a single upstream source and keep local > what is strictly necessary.
Well, remember i have been trying to send you those pegasos patches since august last year or so. > Anything else is a maintainance nightmare in the long term. Sure, but it provides for localized testing before large scale deployement later on. Friendly, Sven Luther
