On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 17:26:40 -0400, Zachary Palmer wrote: > So here's the question: how would I best go about testing this patch? > In looking through the git history, it doesn't seem as if the > bcache-for-3.11 branch has been synced against the Linux git since > 3.10-rc7 (on June 22nd). I was thinking I could > > * Pull the Linux kernel source > * Add the bcache git as an origin > * Merge the bcache-for-3.11 branch into the Linux 3.11 mainline > branch myself and > * Assuming that this works, compile and boot the resulting kernel > using my Debian kernel .config > > Does this sound reasonable? Or is there a better way to do this? I'm > pretty happy with whatever gives me at least the behavior of my mainline > 3.10 kernel and I'm looking forward to getting bcache and laptop power > modes on the same machine. :)
Yeah, it'll merge cleanly. You can reuse the .config and build with `make deb-pkg -j -l6`, which is slowly replacing make-kpkg functionality. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bcache" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
