On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 22:50 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I'd say go with the cleanups. The code I've seen is going to be quite
> unmaintainable by any kernel developer.
>
> Any fixes which come from upstream can be trivially applied by taking the
> diffs against the version of upstream we started with and manually applying
> them to our version. If the diffs are too large and complex for that then
> a) we shouldn't be merging the code in its current state anyway and b) with
> the code as-is we couldn't effectively review or changelog those diffs, so
> we shouldn't apply them.
>
> So just fork it and freeze it.
Ok, thanks for the decision.
Since I don't have too much faith in what Nitin has done with it, I'll
produce a version myself. In theory we should end up with identical code
so will be a sanity check of Nitin's code if nothing else.
Cheers,
Richard
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