From: Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:43:36 GMT
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel based project in git
Message-ID: <hkjkl7$8eg$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <be6731d603701c3c5befc79613fd451b.squirrel@webmail.eisendle.net>

Christian Eisendle wrote:
>>> IMHO it would make sense to have 3 branches (BSP, USB, WiFi) each based
>>> on
>>> unmodified 2.6.22 Kernel. USB and WiFi branch is used for generating the
>>> patch and for applying possible fixes. BSP branch for actual BSP related
>>> feature development and fixes.
>>> The changes in these branches are merged into the master branch which is
>>> used for compiling/testing the whole BSP.
>>
>> Are you planning to submit these patches upstream at any point?  If
>> not, it might be easiest to just jam them all together in one branch
>> and not look back.  Since it seems like they probably affect quite
>> different parts of the code, you could always extract a clean set of
>> patches *later* and submit those patches upstream.
> 
> For BSP I plan to upstream eventually.
> 
> The basic idea was to divide the project in three different patches since
> USB and WiFi comes from a third party and is not released under GPL (well,
> different story...)

Do you distribute this kernel?