Nicolas Pitre wrote: > Indeed. And that's exactly what I'm looking for in order to produce the > linaro-next kernel tree. The linaro-next tree is discarded and rebuilt > from scratch by merging together a bunch of development trees on a > regular basis. I'd like to add your up-to-date tree to the lot.
We currently don't have anything like a git, what we have is this patchstack against Rothwells next-tags: http://userweb.kernel.org/~linusw/st-ericsson/ This consists of the patches we have considered to be in such a good shape that we have sent them off to the different mailing lists and subsystem maintainers. NB: this is on top of the stuff we already have pending in next, which is currently actually a lot. Right now we have ~49 patches pending in the latest next tag and ~27 patches in the additional patch stack (i.e. stuff under review). I'm rebasing this patch stack agains Rothwells tree at irregular intervals. The reason for not having this in a git is that since we're currently messing in so many subsystems and extending and fixing the subsystems as we go along and since we get so many cross-dependencies between subsystems, I have found it a lot easier to just keep a simple patch stack for the time being. Maybe I'm just not understanding some easy way out of cross- subsystem dependencies, but the way I'm experiencing it is that we have done the simple drivers already, the stuff we have left is all of the type where we must have some special header file for the driver platform data creating a cross- subsystem dependency to the ARM tree. Any incremental fixes once the driver is in are usually a breeze to merge and maintain. We are making this even more elaborate by trying to push stuff like DMA into drivers/dma/* and GPIO expanders into drivers/gpio/* instead of just slamming all hairy cases into arch/arm/* like many platforms have done previously... Any hints on how to get out of this and create a simple git tree or set of trees is welcome, I have yet not found any. Yours, Linus Walleij _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
