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Re: [Xen-devel] [Need Input] (informal) Automotive PV drivers subproject request



On 09/06/2014 11:18, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
On Sat, 7 Jun 2014, Dario Faggioli wrote:
Officially supported Xen Project repositories should only depend on
*upstreams* (Xen, Linux, ...). As we are talking about
git://xenbits.xen.org/pvdrivers.git here (as suggested by Aertem),
whatever is in that repo (owned by a subproject) should build and work
with vanilla Xen and Linux.
Is this pvdrivers.git going to be a descendent (e.g. a git clone) of
xen.git? Or is it a fresh repository which contains this new set of
drivers which do not have a home in xen.git?
pvdrivers.git shall not be a clone for xen.git. Indeed, it is a set of
drivers that, as you said, do not have a home in xen.git or kernel.git

Indeed. What I've got in mind is something like the following:

xenbits.org/[artem?]/xen-automotive.git  integration tree
I am assuming xen-automotive.git = xen.git with hacks (as a staging tree)
So wouldn't it be better the to have xenbits/people/automotive/artem?/xen.git instead of a renamed tree?

xenbits.org/pvdrivers.git    'additional pvdrivers' (subproject?) tree

I concur with Ian that the latter should host everything that does not
have any proper upstream (like linux userspace components), or that
can't be upstreamed for non technical reasons (like QNX components).
What I'd allow is probably for some Linux *kernel* components, just out
of convenience, although, again, I think the goal there should be
similar to what we said wrt Xen: *upstream them all*!! :-D
Wouldn't that complicate merging, etc. It actually would only become convenient for building and terrible for upstreaming
Which is why I argued for
* xenbits.org/pvdrivers.git = clean and purely dependent on
* xenbits.org/people/automotive/artem?/*.git to contain hacks for Linux kernel, etc.

The workflow would be:
* xenbits.org/people/automotive/artem?/*.git ... initial contribution and space to clean up hacks * xenbits.org/pvdrivers.git ... clean repo reflecting what is upstream. This is the final destination for PV drivers not living elsewhere. This is where the pvdrivers subproject would make releases from, etc.

It sounds like we are heading toward creating both personal trees and
pvdrivers.git.
That was my assumption too. See earlier mail

The personal trees would be personal trees like everybody else's: they
could be used for WIP patch series and pull requests. They are no
different from mine and yours.
Agreed
pvdrivers.git is the interesting one because it would be the upstream
git repository for otherwise homeless pv drivers, such us userspace and
QNX PV drivers.
Agreed

In my opinion Linux kernel drivers should stay in their personal git
trees as WIP patch series until upsteamed.
Agreed

Regards
Lars


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