On 8/2/08, Jerome Glisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I might be totaly wrong so feel free to ignore these. I got the feeling > that the user test base on linux kernel is far bigger than ours. Also > i think that our test user base are people wanting lastest things with > old kernel, while i understand that (building kernel is not fun on my > ram slim computer) i think this end up being a burden to us. > > So in the end i think we should be better off with linux development > tree where dev know the deadline to get feature in. I got the feeling > that this way we could drive development on features basis like getting > vblank rework done for a given kernel release and so get dev to focus > more on some features and get them done in a timely fashion. This way > we could avoid to get some new feature to rot a bit in the drm tree > because. > > Also i think the linux-next or other linux bleeding edge tree would give > us lot more tester with a lot more experience on good bug report that > our current test base (i am not saying that we have bad tester, we have > some very good one too which we should give credits, just that we might > be able to get more of them). >
Judging by the current trend (where we see lots of people reporting the recent shmem_file_setup breakage because they tried to load git drm on a non-tip kernel), we have a lot of testers that don't run latest kernels but still get drm git. So the argument of more testers may not be true. Now that I think about it, is there a way with git to : 1. have a single main drm branch (that is, keep drm git the way it is right now) 2. inside this branch, maintain a number of changesets (each of those changesets would be an in-development feature). It seems to me we'd get the best of both worlds that way; the changesets would let us submit features upstream easily, and no push/pull would be needed to update all the repos. Seeing how most drm developments do not overlap, requiring explicit pull/pushes with merges sounds more complex than it needs to be. Now I'm not sure if it's possible, but at least I don't see a technical reason this wouldn't. Stephane ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
