From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:36:19 +0000 Subject: Re: A patch got applied to v4l bypassing v4l lists Message-Id: <20081218193619.GJ10620@game.jcrosoft.org> 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 > Agree - breaking bisection is not something I'm looking into. > > If you like, I can explain to you where this extra work comes from. That's > my current understanding of the work flow on v4l, it might still be not > quite right, so I'll be happy if anyone corrects me and tells me a better > way to handle this. > > v4l uses mercurial repositories as primary dveelopment trees. These > repositories do not contain complete kernel trees, instead, they present a > directory with some tools, where linux is a subdirectory of, and that's > where a part of the kernel is reproduced. so why do not you use git and git-modules it will save you time and will be simplest to use and track the v4l tree Best Regards, J.