Hello!
I have finally found time to reconcile our CVS repository with the Linux
kernel. The result is available in the "for_linus" branch. It would
only compile for 2.6.16 prereleases. My plan is to submit changes for
2.6.17 once 2.6.16 is released.
I hope it's the last manual reconciliation, thanks to the progress in
the versioning systems. In particular, git and StGIT have finally
become useful and stable.
I currently have two git repositories, one is for the kernel and the
other is only for the driver. The driver git repository was converted
from the CVS repository.
Both repositories store all new patches as StGIT patches. StGIT is
specifically designed to operate on patches. The last commits in the
for_linus branch were actually exported from the driver git repository.
The kernel repository has patches that will be sent to the kernel
developers. I still need to do some work on splitting patches that will
got to the kernel. Some of them are too large. But the important thing
is that both repositories are in-sync, and any changes in one repository
can be easily moved to the other.
Now, the question is how to share this work with other developers and
testers. There are some issues here.
I don't have a place to host git repositories. I can continue to export
to CVS from the Orinoco git repository. Unfortunately, CVS is quite bad
at handling branches and commits made in a quick succession. I had to
deal with both already, and I'm afraid we'll have to deal with it even
more.
Since SourceForge offers Subversion, I'm thinking of converting the
repository to Subversion and moving it from Savannah to SourceForge.
Another approach would be to use Arch on Savannah, but it would be a
steep learning curve both for me and for testers. Finally, I could ask
kernel developers to give a repository on kernel.org/git.
As for the next release, I still need to port PCMCIA changes to older
kernels, which is another big effort.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
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