On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 10:52:58AM -0800, Roland Dreier wrote:
> Greg> Checking stuff into a private svn tree is vastly different
> Greg> from posting to lkml in public. In fact, it looks like the
> Greg> svn tree is so far ahead of the in-kernel stuff, that most
> Greg> people are just using it instead of the in-kernel code.
>
> It's not a private svn tree -- the IBM ehca development is available
> to anyone via svn at https://openib.org/svn/gen2/trunk/src/linux-kernel/infiniband/hw/ehca
Sorry, I didn't mean to say "private", but rather, "seperate".
Doing kernel development in a seperate development tree from the
mainline kernel is very problematic, as has been documented many times
in the past.
> Distro politics are just distro politics -- and there will always be
> pressure on distros to ship stuff that's not upstream yet.
Luckily the distros know better than to accept this anymore, as they
have been burned too many times in the past...
thanks,
greg k-h
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