Re: Rebasing handhelds.org CVS

On St, 2008-05-07 at 03:08 +0400, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 12:55:45AM +0200, Milan Plzik wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > it has been a while since handhelds.org CVS was rebased to more recent
> > arm-linux kernel. Is there any plan to do so again in near future? I
>
> Please don't. ;-) Current -hh tree is a good "reference point" for many
> almost-ready devices (hx4700, for example). Rebasing now means a lot of
> stuff will break, and nobody will ever fix it.
>
> I would suggest to not do single -hh tree, but simply mainline everything
> you're currently working at.

  Good point, but I have few objections. :) Code in CVS might be good
reference point, but it quite old. I guess the difference between 2.6.21
and 2.6.25 is quite big.

  Things should be mainlined, no discussion about that, but I guess
separate repository for handhelds-related stuff has its reasons to exist
-- sometimes we have patches which might not be that easily acceptable
for mainline or semi-experimental stuff, e.g. gpiodev-keys2, which will
be probably never accepted, as AFAIK only port using it is h5000. I
can't speak for other ports, though.

>
> > would also offer my help, but I can't do so until 1st of June (ideally,
> > until then I will be busy).
> >
> > <whisper>Or even, maybe it would be worth it to switch from CVS to GIT,
> > and do rebasing then. :)</whisper>
>
> Yea, kernel.org is using GIT already. ;-)
>
> p.s. Of course it would be great if hh.o provided its own git hosting,
> but it isn't that important, since there are a lot of free hostings out
> there. What is really sad is that mainling lists are almost dead.
>

  Yes, but on the other side I'm quite glad that my e-mail was caught by
some eyes:) But still -- since k-d doesn't work anymore, no one actually
sees activity around hh.org kernel, which might be a bit demotivating
for developers.

        Milan
Received on Wed May 07 2008 - 12:29:28 EDT