--- Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > We're looking at reorganizing the way DRM drivers are maintained. > > Currently, the DRM kernel code lives deep in a subdirectory of the > DRI > > tree (which is a partial copy of the XFree86 tree). We plan to > move it > > "up" to its own module at the top level. That should make it > *much* > > easier for people that want to do things with the DRM but don't > want all > > the rest of X (i.e., DRI w/DirectFB, etc.). > > > > When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing > the > > file structure. What can we do to make it easier for kernel > release > > maintainers to merge changes into their trees? > > - Make sure that the files in the main kernel distribution are up to > date. > > - Prepare a shell script which does all the relevant file moves, send > to > Linus, along with a diff which fixes up Kconfig and Makefiles. > > - Start patching the files in their new locations. > >
we (as dri developers) should probably also sync the other way more regularly too. sometimes there are changes in the kernel tree that don't get back to the dri/drm tree in a timely manner. Alex __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
