Re: [parisc-linux] CVS linux Vs. -test10

[Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>]

On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:34:31AM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> Ok. What's the first step to getting arch/parisc* and include/asm-parisc*
> into Linus's tree?

Someone (probably me) sends him a patch.  He told me at the Toronto
show that he was quite happy to apply anything that only touched those
two directories. (oh, and drivers/gsc wouldn't be a problem either).
Can I just check that no-one wants to rename drivers/gsc again?  :-)

> I had dinner with Bdale Garbee last night and one of two things he made
> clear was we need to unfork from debian and linus's tree in order to move
> forward. All our CVS branches need to become obsolete or "local sandboxes"
> of the respective upstream partners. Feeding kernel bits upstream will
> bring a new level of visibility (and *HELP*) to the parisc-linux port.

that's true.  last time we discussed this several people were unhappy
with the idea of sending our current work to Linus.  Is anyone unhappy
with doing this now?

> I also find it odd that glibc is merged upstream *before* the kernel is.

glibc is more portable :-)

> The part you described above is the easy part - np.
> I'm worried about labels and tracking how we "name" the releases.
> Mang or other CVS ninja's care to comment?

don't tag it.  just commit it.  tags are laid down at big events, not
when you fix bugs or undo changes.

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