Re: [usbip-devel] Any development against staging driver in linux mainline

[Fritz E. <fr...@fr...>]

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Himanshu Chauhan schrieb:
> On Sun, Feb 07, 2010 at 02:02:31PM +0100, Fritz Elfert wrote:
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>> 2 weeks ago, I committed several patches here in SVN. Just do an svn log
>> and you'll see. AFAIK, Brian G. Merrell is the guy who pushes them
>> upstrem to Greg. From my personal point of view, I'd like to keep the SF
>> SVN up-to-date (probably backporting some staging stuff).
> 
> I did send a few patches (cleanups basically) to the kernel mailing list
> and they have been incorporated in Greg's tree and will be pulled by Linus
> soon. People there weren't very happy about the multibyte status in sysfs.
> I did try moving it to debugfs and modify the userland application accordinly
> to get the status of devices. But I held back the patch after seeing activity
> here.
> 
> I think it would be great if the patches are send on the mailing list here,
> before being committed to the SVN. This way people will know whats up and
> may be they will have comments. What do you think?
> 
>> Reason:
>> Like myself, there are shurely people out there who cannot use the
>> latest kernel for various reasons (company upgrade policy, etc..) but
>> still like to use USB/IP.
> 
> How do you think about the symbol mismatch? They will anyway have to compile
> against a precompiled kernel. They have to have some freedom before trying
> this out.
> 
>> @Takahiro:
>> Could you please give us admin rights. I'd really like to set up a
>> proper mail notification for SVN (among other things - like enabling
>> missing bug/patch/fr trackers). 
> 
> I would still request people to send out the patches on the list before
> committing anything to SVN.
That's what the trackers are for.
On my other projects, I used to have a Patch-Tracker, which
automatically sends a mail to the developer mailing list if anybody
submits a patch.

Unfortunately, with only Takahiro having admin rights - there's nothing
I - or anyone of the other dev-members can do right now.

Cheers
 -Fritz

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