From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] linux-staging tree created Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:28:10 -0700 Message-ID: <20080611032810.GA4483@kroah.com> References: <20080610190540.GA25066@kroah.com> <31e679430806101707s357e4b0dm79c3f9a95c784320@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:57636 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754961AbYFKDdO (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:33:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <31e679430806101707s357e4b0dm79c3f9a95c784320@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-next-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Felipe Balbi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Stephen Rothwell On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:07:30AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > hi, > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > Oh great, not yet-another-kernel-tree, just what the world needs... > > > > Yes, this is an announcement of a new kernel tree, linux-staging. It is > > a quilt series of patches that can be found at: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging.git > > > > > > In a long and meandering thread with some of the other kernel developers > > a week or so ago, it came up that there is no single place for companies > > and developers to put their code for testing while it gets cleaned up > > for submission into the kernel tree. All of the different subsystems > > have trees, but they generally only want code that is about to go into > > this release, or the next one. For stuff that is farther off, there is > > no place to go. > > That's great. I started working on the test and measurement class > driver. Do you want me to send preliminary patches or just the final > one ? I'll take whatever you have, prelim patches is nice if you are at a stopping point and want to make sure I get them applied :) thanks, greg k-h