From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu) Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 10:14:46 -0400 Subject: out-of-tree configuration In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:02:09 -0700." <1403100129.65690.YahooMailNeo@web160703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> References: <1403100129.65690.YahooMailNeo@web160703.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <37412.1403100886@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:02:09 -0700, john bougs said: > Without? trying to sound confrontational, why not build it out of tree? Why not have it build in-tree? That way you can throw it at Greg KH and get it in (at least) drivers/staging, at which point you no longer have to do ongoing maintenance to keep in sync with new kernel APIs - if anybody changes an API that you're using, it's their job to update your use of it. :) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 848 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20140618/3fd34c29/attachment.bin