Re: [ANNOUNCE] git tree repositories

[Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>]

Laurent Pinchart wrote:
> Hi Devin,

> I totally agree with you here. We obviously don't support developers who still 
> want to use a 2.4.x kernel on their computer, so a line as to be drawn at some 
> point.

Currently, the backport starts on 2.6.16. I think it is ok to keep this as the
basis version.

> This being said, I think we should not base the v4l-dvb git tree on the very 
> latest Linus' tree. Linus himself stated during the LPC 2009 that subsystems 
> should not pull from his tree at random point, but should rather use main 
> kernel versions, or at least -rc versions. I think that basing the v4l-dvb 
> tree on top of the last tag from mainline would be a better practice than 
> pulling from it everyday.

A good compromise here would be to use the latest main kernel version for fix
patches that needs to go also to -stable and -rc1 for the other fixes and 
development patches.

> This will obviously not solve the issue you mention, which is why we still 
> need to agree on a nice way to handle backports, but that will make life 
> easier for developers who want to try the v4l-dvb subsystem on top of the most 
> recent kernel.

Agreed.

Cheers,
Mauro.