Re: debian kernel svn shortcuts
On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 05:05:48PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Christian T. Steigies wrote:
> > > it worked very well for me. So everything is in good shape, you don't need
> > > my help (its a lot of patches, though...).
> >
> > You don't need all of them, some are really WIP (e.g. the platform
> > device patches).
> >
> > We used to have Linux/m68k CVS for the sufficiently stable current
> > version, but now that's gone, I should probably be a little bit more
> > careful what I put there ;-)
>
> Well for instance you have a "# FIXME Just for testing" comment in the
> series file for 2.6.26, so I stopped applying patches beyond that.
>
> I think there's a case for just including the patches above
> "# NEXT_PATCHES_END" and letting people tell me which ones to cherry
> pick beyond that. Unfortunately, all the aranym patches seem to live
> beyond that.
Sometimes I'm hoping the ARAnyM people start signing off their patches
when they're ready for prime time...
> I'd be happy if there was a well-formed comment that I could code
> around to drop out a series of patches or to not include patches
> beyond.
That can be done... However, if I switch to git, that part becomes more
difficult, right?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
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