out-of-tree configuration

[Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu]

On Wed, 18 Jun 2014 07:02:09 -0700, john bougs said:
> Without  trying to sound confrontational, why not build it out of tree?

Why not have it build in-tree? That way you can throw it at Greg KH
and get it in (at least) drivers/staging, at which point you no longer
have to do ongoing maintenance to keep in sync with new kernel APIs - if
anybody changes an API that  you're using, it's their job to update
your use of it. :)
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