On Monday 20 April 2015 11:44:09 Marek Lindner wrote:
> On Sunday, April 19, 2015 19:49:00 Linus Lüssing wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 09:29:21PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> > > The person submitting the patches to the Networking maintainer has to
> > > take
> > > each patch and move files around and add some files to make it work in
> > > the actual kernel tree. Having all files included and already  in the
> > > correct kernel tree layout should make this a lot easier.
> > 
> > I like the idea. Was moving patches between in- and
> > out-of-kernel-tree batman-adv a few times, too and that'd
> > spare an sed call in the future :).
> 
> If I am not mistaken the build process of the various packages need to be
> adapted unless we provide a Makefile in the root folder ?

This is what the RFC is about (btw. I have a cleaner version of the Makefile 
here in my HDD). It tries to keep the batman-adv stuff in net/batman-adv and 
provides the compat and extra Makefile stuff in the root folder. You should be 
able to do a diff of batman-adv:net/batman-adv + linux:net/batman-adv and see 
no difference.

This means the person moving patches from batman-adv to net-next (or the other 
way around) still has some occasional changes in the compat code outside of 
net/batman-adv/ which he must removed (or added). But I hope it is still 
helpful.

Kind regards,
        Sven

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