From: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel based project in git
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 12:43:36 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <hkjkl7$8eg$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: be6731d603701c3c5befc79613fd451b.squirrel@webmail.eisendle.net
Christian Eisendle wrote:
>>> IMHO it would make sense to have 3 branches (BSP, USB, WiFi) each based
>>> on
>>> unmodified 2.6.22 Kernel. USB and WiFi branch is used for generating the
>>> patch and for applying possible fixes. BSP branch for actual BSP related
>>> feature development and fixes.
>>> The changes in these branches are merged into the master branch which is
>>> used for compiling/testing the whole BSP.
>>
>> Are you planning to submit these patches upstream at any point? If
>> not, it might be easiest to just jam them all together in one branch
>> and not look back. Since it seems like they probably affect quite
>> different parts of the code, you could always extract a clean set of
>> patches *later* and submit those patches upstream.
>
> For BSP I plan to upstream eventually.
>
> The basic idea was to divide the project in three different patches since
> USB and WiFi comes from a third party and is not released under GPL (well,
> different story...)
Do you distribute this kernel?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-06 11:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-02 9:05 Linux Kernel based project in git git
2010-02-02 19:53 ` Avery Pennarun
2010-02-03 8:32 ` Christian Eisendle
2010-02-06 11:43 ` Stephen Kelly [this message]
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