[openib-general] [RFC] remove kernel drivers from svn

[Roland Dreier]

    Bryan> From a driver maintainer's perspective, this is okay by me.
    Bryan> We just drop big patches into Subversion periodically to
    Bryan> sync it up with our internal tree, while we feed "real"
    Bryan> patches to you for your git tree, so this eliminates a
    Bryan> step.

Exactly.  If you're not using svn for development anyway, then I don't
see the point of having your driver there.

    Bryan> From the perspective of people consuming this stuff (who
    Bryan> greatly outnumber people actually hacking on the kernel
    Bryan> tree), it might make sense to just drop a kernel snapshot
    Bryan> into the Subversion tree on a regular basis, as a
    Bryan> convenience, so that those who don't wish to need not put
    Bryan> up with the idiosyncracies of git.

We can just let people grab kernel snapshots from kernel.org I think.

 - R.