Re: Can you add the staging tree to -next?

["J.R. Mauro" <jrm8005@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:28:17PM -0500, J.R. Mauro wrote:
>> There also seem to be a lot of build errors that no one hacking on
>> staging has seen before being threshed out by all the randconfig tests
>> done on -next, which will help a lot if we want the staging drivers to
>> actually go anywhere.
>
> In looking at these in some detail, the majority of them are due to api
> changes in other trees, so these changes will have to be done during the
> -rc1 merge window, which shouldn't be that big of an issue.

That's what I'm noticing, but the sooner we know about the issues on
the horizon, the better.

>
> But yes, there are some kconfig dependancies as well, Randy is really
> good at finding them :)  If you want to send me patches to fix these,
> I'd appreciate it.

Yep, I'm working on it :)

>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
>