From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: ACPI patch flow Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 16:23:33 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <3F5F8845.9080405@pobox.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: To: "Brown, Len" Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org, "Grover, Andrew" , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Brown, Len wrote: > I've re-named the linux-acpi* tree to be linux-acpi-release*; and made > the staging area for the release tree visible -- calling it > linux-acpi-test* > > So a 2 stage release is now visible on the net: cool! > As before, the BK trees live here: http://linux-acpi.bkbits.com If > there is demand for plain patches of the _test_ tree we can probably > also export those on http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpi too, but as > the test tree will change more often, those updates would have to be > on-demand or on significant events. I definitely support the posting of plain patches, and strongly encourage it. We don't want any barriers at all to people testing the latest ACPI fixes. May I make a humble suggestion? :) Whenever net driver stuff gets send off, I'll often run a prepared script which will create a GNU diff against mainline, gzip it, and upload it to ftp.kernel.org. That gives the non-BK users patches to play with. I first considered posting these net driver patches on sourceforge (project: gkernel), but uploads to sourceforge are time-consuming events. You have a upload to an FTP site, then fill out a bunch of forms and click a bunch of buttons. It's a system that _discourages_ frequent software postings, IMO. So, my suggestion is to get an account on some web/ftp site (kernel.org?) and create a script that combines two tasks (bk push and GNU patch upload) into a single command you run on your local Linux box. Properly scripted, posting a patch shouldn't be any more work than pushing to your new test tree. And IMHO you will reap the benefits. Jeff