On 11/24/2016 05:10 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]> > Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 11:00:29 +0100 > >> For SILO, Oracle has created several patches which port SILO to 64-bit (I >> extracted >> that patch and applied it to the Debian package) and other packages which >> improve >> SILO on modern sun4v machines. > > All of the changes which were submitted to this list I reviewed and > either they were poorly formed or did not apply cleanly at all.
That doesn't sound too good :(. > Everything fell to /dev/null and the developers made no effort > whatsoever to address the feedback and make the patches actually apply > to the SILO git tree properly. > > The patches were not only poorly formed, or not able to apply to the > GIT tree, they were also extremely poorly documented with either a > very terse and vague commit message provided or none at all. When > I would ask why a change was doing X or Y, I received no response > at all. Hmm. I have this small patch which enables 64-bit support. It's rather clean and I'll try to submit it later today to get at least some improvements. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - [email protected] `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - [email protected] `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913
