[U-Boot-Users] Re: [PATCH][CFT] bring ARM memory layout in line with the documentation
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Thu Oct 16 13:21:27 CEST 2003
In message <20031016105052.GR25427 at pengutronix.de> you wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 12:31:11PM +0200, Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> > I do not see the need for an "unstable branch". On contrary, I am
> > convinced that a second branch in the public source tree would only
> > increase the necessary maintenance efford.
>
> Unfortunately this makes non-orthogonal patches difficult because they
> surely could break things.
I disagree. It just means that we will have to make sure to clean up
any such mess quickly, at least before the next release.
This is a policy decision. It prevents that the project is drifting
apart in different directions. I don't have the manpower and/or
nerves to deal with many different branches.
Branches are evil. Just look at the mess we have with the PowerPC
Linux kernel. There is linux-2.4 and linux-2.5 on kernel.org, and
linuxppc-2.4 and linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.5 and BenH's "pmac
stable tree" and the ameslab tree and the ppc64 tree and ...
If some change breaks the code so hard that it is impossible to fix
it between releases that the change needs to be reworked first.
We did without branches when marging in ARMBoot, and when adding more
architectures, and we will try to do without branches in the future.
Period.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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