I don't get GIT

I don't get GIT

[Brandon Jenkins]

Hi Linux Media,

As an end user I am most interested in updating specific drivers for
my system. Most distros, that I know of, only bump kernel versions by
releasing a new version of the distro. As development move to the GIT
repository, how do I as an end user pull the drivers and compile for
my current running kernel? I am not too interested in compiling the
whole kernel just to get the fixes of the drivers. NOTE: The sole
reason this server exists is to provide TV and media distribution in
the home.

When I read through Mauro's announcement of the GIT repository it
seemed to indicate that this feature wasn't available. Although I
could have read that incorrectly.

Thanks in advance for the answers!

Brandon

Re: I don't get GIT

[Douglas Schilling Landgraf]

Hello Brandon,

On 02/05/2010 09:48 AM, Brandon Jenkins wrote:
> Hi Linux Media,
> 
> As an end user I am most interested in updating specific drivers for
> my system. Most distros, that I know of, only bump kernel versions by
> releasing a new version of the distro. As development move to the GIT
> repository, how do I as an end user pull the drivers and compile for
> my current running kernel? I am not too interested in compiling the
> whole kernel just to get the fixes of the drivers. NOTE: The sole
> reason this server exists is to provide TV and media distribution in
> the home.

We still have mercurial tree available which became the backport tree. 
Basically, almost daily this tree is synced with git tree and backported
some drivers to work with old kernels.

> When I read through Mauro's announcement of the GIT repository it
> seemed to indicate that this feature wasn't available. Although I
> could have read that incorrectly.

You can download the hg tree following the linuxtv wiki page:
http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers#Using_Mercurial

Cheers,
Douglas

Re: I don't get GIT

[Brandon Jenkins]

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Douglas Schilling Landgraf
<dougsland@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Brandon,
>
> On 02/05/2010 09:48 AM, Brandon Jenkins wrote:
>
> You can download the hg tree following the linuxtv wiki page:
> http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/How_to_Obtain,_Build_and_Install_V4L-DVB_Device_Drivers#Using_Mercurial
>
> Cheers,
> Douglas
>

Hi Douglas,

Thanks for the response. I know how to deal with hg. Now that there is
a transition to git, I would like to learn how to achieve the same
results. Access to building new drivers with the same running kernel.
My concern is that I have 2 device types (HVR-1600 and HD-PVR) and one
of the devs has submitted their latest bits via git and I didn't see
it ported over to the hg tree. While I realize everything takes time -
I thought I would check into git and see if I could deal with it.

When development moves to git, how do I replace that ability?

Thanks,

Brandon