Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> there was a demand to move from svn to git from Marc and Sebastian. I >> also believe, that git would save some maintenance work, mainly because >> patches could be prepared and applied more easily to the trees used for >> development. Here are my ideas: >> >> - I would like to keep the out-of-tree code we have currently under SVN >> mainly because backward compatibility with older kernels is a really >> useful feature, not only for development but also for the real users. >> Maintaining a full git tree with that backward compatibility is much >> more work, I believe. >> >> - Move the SVN kernel/2.6/ tree to git, without the "old" drivers >> and plus strip-src. >> >> - Move the SVN can-utils to a separate git tree. >> >> - Abandon the SVN repository. We keep it, of course, also for support of >> 2.4, but we should not spend time for updates. > > Looks good. > > But what about the 2.4 tree? > Does is make sense to put it into a separate git tree? > > I also wondered if i should ask Willy Tarreau if he would take the CAN stuff > into the 2.4 mainline ...
For both items, I think it's not worth the effort and it will require a real effort to get it into 2.4. But if you have free resources... ;-). Wolfgang. _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
