Re: BK kernel workflow

Paolo Ciarrocchi
2004-10-19T22:05:20Z

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:06:49 -0400, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:
> Although tangential to the problem, I thought LKML and BitMover (and
> maybe Andrew or Linus as well) might be interested in a general
> description of my workflow.
>
> For net drivers in the Linux kernel, there exists two patch queues,
> net-drivers-2.6 and netdev-2.6 (and corresponding 2.4 versions).
> net-drivers-2.6 could be described as the "upstream immediately" or "for
> Linus" queue, and netdev-2.6 could be described as the "testing" queue.

So you have two bk trees,
- patches good for mainstream
- patches good for -mm tree

It would be cool if all the maintainers could adopt your working method,
Andrew is already automatically pulling from a bunch of trees, why not
having Linusdoing the same too?

Something like:
linux-2.6.XX is released
- Linus pull from all the "patches good for mainstream" bk trees and
from the equivalent Andrew tree (that doesn't exist at the moment)
- Linus release the first -pre release
- Linus gets other patches according to the "old" method
- Linus releases the -pre/-rc

Is it just a stupid idea ?

--
Paolo