Re: [Dri-devel] Re: DRM reorganization

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Ian Romanick <idr@us.ibm.com> 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  Presumably it's out
of date.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.