kernel patch/repository status

Angus Ainslie nytowl at openmoko.org
Thu Mar 26 18:12:57 CET 2009


On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:02 +0100, Sven Rebhan wrote:
> If I got you right, you want to track the linus/rmk/ben/whatsoever
> development branch. That's fine for development, but most users don't
> like the buggy -rc (or even inter -rc) states. For them, a second
> branch should track upstream 2.6.29.y stable releases and we should
> backport important changes to that branch. This would give them the
> opportunity to get importent Openmoko fixes while not fighting with
> unstable upstream -rc bugs.
> 

I'd like to add my vote for a "stable" 2.6.29.x tracking branch. I think
it will be necessary if we're going to meet all of the Om2009 goals. The
current stable tag is getting stale.

Angus




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