Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCHv6] 01/28] build: import Kbuild/Kconfig from Linux 4.2

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Beulich writes ("Re: [PATCHv6] 01/28] build: import Kbuild/Kconfig from 
Linux 4.2"):
> On 30.11.15 at 16:42, <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I would go further than this, and wholesale import the relevant files
> > into a subdirectory in a single commit that contains nothing else, and
> > mention the specific git commit id and version number in the Linux
> > tree in the commit message.
> 
> But what's the point of importing things we're not going to use?

I thought I had explained that.

A future re-import or merge will be much simpler if this import is a
simple wholesale copy of a directory or two or a simple glob pattern.

The runes used to do the import could be in the commit message for
easy reproduction.

> Imo such an import should be limited to those files that (later on)
> would actually get wired up. Hence the request to do a minimalistic
> import for this first round.

This would involve a series of piece-by-piece imports.  Any future
merge or re-import would involve retracing and re-executing those
steps.

It appears that we do disagree.  Perhaps the basic thing is: I don't
think we want to fork this code.  We want to be a downstream of Linux
for it.  If necessary we may edit, to an extent, the parts we import,
but hopefully we'll keep that to a minimum.

Ian.

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