Re: [tlug] Open-source repository question

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On 2009-07-24 15:52 +0900 (Fri), John Fremlin wrote:

> The DMA stuff was very useful for the projects which were using 
> supported drivers and where they were short of DMA channels, but not for 
> everybody as not all drivers were converted. So it couldn't be committed 
> to the trunk for a while.
> 
> How would Curt or Linus keep this in their heads?

I wouldn't of course. As I think I've mentioned before, in many senses
I'm a Bear of Very Little Brain.

In this sort of case, I'd make an attempt to figure out how to set up
the build system of such a project so that you can build two different
versions of the code from the same source: the DMA version, with one
set of drivers, and the non-DMA version with a different (but probably
overlapping) set of drivers. If that got to expensive, I'd probably just
branch.

It's not as if I object to branches in all cases. I just think that
they generally should not be your first choice for trying to deal with
things.

cjs
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