Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:07:30AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs...
> >
> > Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging.  It is
> > a quilt series of patches that can be found at:
> >        git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git
> >
> >
> > In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers
> > a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies
> > and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up
> > for submission into the kernel tree.  All of the different subsystems
> > have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into
> > this release, or the next one.  For stuff that is farther off, there is
> > no place to go.
> 
> That's great. I started working on the test and measurement class
> driver. Do you want me to send preliminary patches or just the final
> one ?

I'll take whatever you have, prelim patches is nice if you are at a
stopping point and want to make sure I get them applied :)

thanks,

greg k-h