[Ksummit-discuss] [MAINTAINER SUMMIT] Distribution kernel bugzillas considered harmful

Christoph Hellwig hch at infradead.org
Tue Sep 18 15:27:11 UTC 2018


On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:01:50AM -0400, Martin K. Petersen wrote:
> Yeah. I thought about doing what Jens does, splitting core and drivers
> into separate branches. However, compared to block I have so few SCSI
> core updates that I am not convinced it's worth it. Core changes only
> amount to a couple percent of the total number of commits every release.

I did that for the SCSI tree a long time ago, and it did not work out
at all as the few core changes are usually required by driver changes.

Note that I've not really seen the split recently in the block tree
either, probably for the same reason.


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