PRJ001 status - I2C drivers

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Thu Oct 18 16:11:35 UTC 2007


On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 08:19:58AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:03:48 -0500 codemonkey wrote:
> 
> > As stated on the project page in the wiki, Hans, Yaman, and myself are 
> > working on the drivers. The company is currently targeting the 2.6.19 
> > kernel. Coding is occurring at this time.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 2.6.19 was released on 2006-NOV-29, so it's almost one year old.
> Why target that kernel or any specific kernel rev?
> 
> Shouldn't all of these projects target mainline for merging/inclusion?

Yes, they should target the current mainline kernel, get the code into
the main kernel.org tree, and then, if the company still needs it, and
the work is very simple, do the backport to the old kernel version.

That ensures that the code is properly reviewed and accepted upstream
before the company takes the code and ships it.

Is that ok with everyone?

thanks,

greg k-h



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