Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Mon Mar 15 2004 - 19:38:09 EST


Ian Romanick <idr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >>When we do this move, we're open to the possibility of reorganizing the
> >>file structure. What can we do to make it easier for kernel release
> >>maintainers to merge changes into their trees?
> >
> > - Make sure that the files in the main kernel distribution are up to date.
> >
> > - Prepare a shell script which does all the relevant file moves, send to
> > Linus, along with a diff which fixes up Kconfig and Makefiles.
> >
> > - Start patching the files in their new locations.
>
> I'm not 100% sure what you mean. Right now the files in our CVS are
> split between two directories. There's a "common" directory, which is
> used on both Linux & BSD, and a Linux-specific directory. Our intention
> is to shift around where some of the files are in our CVS. I don't
> think we intend to move where things are in the Linux source tree.
>
> That's part of why I'm asking. From talking to Linus in the past, I
> know that merging in changes is a PITA due to our funky directory
> structure. I'd like to make that easier. :)

Oh. So what was the question again?

As far as I know, there's nobody in DRI-land who actually prepares and
sends patches. Fixing that would be a good first step ;)

I've had a 130k DRM patch in -mm since February 8th. Presumably it's out
of date. As far as I know nobody is pushing more recent patches upstream.

What's the process here, and who should I be dealing with?

Thanks.
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