On Friday 27 February 2009 01:45:50 pm Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Dave Airlie <airl...@linux.ie> wrote: > > Prompted by how well it worked with Intel, and changes in my personal > > life leading to reduced time availability (except at 4am...) I'm going to > > clarify the process for getting patches upstream now. (a...@amd also > > trialed this to get r600 upstream). > > > > 1. Apart from maybe minor changes I will no longer pull drm.git patches > > into Linux kernel tree automatically. > > > > 2. All patches should be sent to dri-devel and me against my drm-next > > tree. > > > > 3. Patches must conform to kernel coding standards and have acceptable > > checkpatch.pl results. My only major issues with checkpatch.pl is 80 char > > line length restrictions, please try your best but don't make the code > > really ugly to achieve this. Some scripts/people are too anal. This also > > means no kernel version checks upstream (however we might be able to > > convince people about this, if we get build from Linus tree working). > > > > 4. I will accept sub-module maintainers who want to maintain their driver > > in a git tree, but it'll take a bit of time for me to trust you that I'll > > pull directly, and patches should still pass by the list. Ask Eric how to > > do this. > > > > 5. if someone wants to step up and maintain drm.git as a going concern > > let me know, I'm glad to help if I can. > > Sounds good to me - one question: should we divorce libdrm from the > drm.git repo?
As long as it stays on xorg, I wouldn't object as it would allow drm.git master to be used for leading edge development. > cheers, > Kristian > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >--- Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San > Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing > the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open > source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with > the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H > -- > _______________________________________________ > Dri-devel mailing list > Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list Dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
