From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Khiem Nguyen Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 23:11:55 +0000 Subject: Re: renesas-drivers-2014-07-07-v3.16-rc4 Message-Id: <53BDCC3B.6080406@renesas.com> List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sh@vger.kernel.org Hi Geert, Thanks for your explanation. I have one more question. I assumed you also confirm kernel build and/or kernel boot for some board defconfigs (e.g lager/koelsch) for any new release. Is it correct ? Best regards, KHIEM Nguyen On 7/8/2014 3:45 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > Hi Nguyen-san, > > On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Khiem Nguyen > wrote: >> Could you clarify how developers should use your tree and Simon tree ? > > The goal of my tree is to serve as a good base for development/testing on > shmobile platforms. It contains the latest (accepted) support code for > shmobile platforms and drivers, to be integrated in upstream releases soon. > Hence people no longer have to look around in various maintainer trees > to find shmobile driver updates that are meant for the next kernel release. > >> - Currently, as my understanding, patches are developed and submitted >> base on devel branch of Simon tree. > > Yes, but this applied to patches touching the shmobile platform code only. > >> - So, with your tree, patches will be developed base on your tree and you >> and/or Simon will re-base into devel branch of Simon tree for upstream ? > > Patches touching the shmobile platform code should still be sent to Simon. > Patches touching other parts of the tree should still be sent to the appropriate > maintainer, who will integrate them. There's no change in that. > > I hope this answers your question. Thanks! > > Gr{oetje,eeting}s, > > Geert > > -- > Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org > > In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But > when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. > -- Linus Torvalds > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sh" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >