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| author | Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> | 2010-11-18 12:27:36 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-11-18 15:00:47 -0800 |
| commit | f830673f6aa28741ff6993deade587c8550c1dd3 (patch) | |
| tree | c6f8871dcc3c79742b2c29cc65cd6adaa0c50b95 /Documentation/development-process | |
| parent | e4fabad30eaba5bb78cd8d47885f1b705a0918a0 (diff) | |
Documentation/development-process: more staging info
Document things that I would've liked to have known when submitting a driver
to gregkh for staging.
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/development-process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/2.Process | 25 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process index ae8127c1a78..911a4518634 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/2.Process +++ b/Documentation/development-process/2.Process @@ -303,12 +303,25 @@ volatility of linux-next tends to make it a difficult development target. See http://lwn.net/Articles/289013/ for more information on this topic, and stay tuned; much is still in flux where linux-next is involved. -Besides the mmotm and linux-next trees, the kernel source tree now contains -the drivers/staging/ directory and many sub-directories for drivers or -filesystems that are on their way to being added to the kernel tree -proper, but they remain in drivers/staging/ while they still need more -work. - +2.4.1: STAGING TREES + +The kernel source tree now contains the drivers/staging/ directory, where +many sub-directories for drivers or filesystems that are on their way to +being added to the kernel tree live. They remain in drivers/staging while +they still need more work; once complete, they can be moved into the +kernel proper. This is a way to keep track of drivers that aren't +up to Linux kernel coding or quality standards, but people may want to use +them and track development. + +Greg Kroah-Hartman currently (as of 2.6.36) maintains the staging tree. +Drivers that still need work are sent to him, with each driver having +its own subdirectory in drivers/staging/. Along with the driver source +files, a TODO file should be present in the directory as well. The TODO +file lists the pending work that the driver needs for acceptance into +the kernel proper, as well as a list of people that should be Cc'd for any +patches to the driver. Staging drivers that don't currently build should +have their config entries depend upon CONFIG_BROKEN. Once they can +be successfully built without outside patches, CONFIG_BROKEN can be removed. 2.5: TOOLS |