Re: debian kernel m68k patches for 2.6.28
On Thursday, March 12, 2009 6:18:17 AM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 13:24, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 07:37:29AM +0100, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> >> Just to be clear on this - the plan is to replace the old quilt
> >> based patch
> >> series with a git based one, right?
> >
> > Geert doesn't do quilt any more. So we need a workflow that pulls
> > the patches we want (for some definition) from Geert's repo and
> > updates the debian kernel package.
>
> I plan to create a special `queue' branch for that. But probably that
> won't happen
> before 2.6.29.
>
> > We need to make sure we have all the aranym patches too, since I don't
> > think they've gone upstream. I don't know if they're all in his git
> > or not.
>
> The ARAnyM patches should are in my git tree.
>
> BTW, I noticed I spoke rubbish: my m68k-v2.6.28 branch does have all
> the m68k patches.
> It's just not so easy to extract them as patches, as this is a
> `continuous development branch'.
> Should be easier once I have a proper `queue' branch.
The git-cherry command might help you out here if you have the original v2.6.28 branch in the same git tree.
Also see git-format-patch for extracting a series of patches from a branch (formatted as email messages).
Dave
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