From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 02:38:53 GMT
Subject: Re: What to expect after 0.99.8
Message-ID: <43433CBD.2060603@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051004210706.GA16161@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 02:08:36PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
>>I believe in the medium-to-long term a plugin architecture for merging 
>>is imperative.  It's not even different media types, but some *files* 
>>have specific merging policies.  Think, for example, of pci.ids in the 
>>Linux kernel tree.
> 
> You mean the file that is now removed from the kernel tree?  Sure,
> that's a good merge policy :)
> 

*Plonk*... well, the point was that even text files can be structured so 
that application-specific merge rules can be made to apply.  ChangeLogs 
are another good example.

	-hpa