patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Jones
For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as git-*.diff and lately, everything seems to have gone bananas, with no particular scheme at all.. nvidia-agp.patch, percpu_counter_sum_cleanup.patch,

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:14:42PM -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: In the X server I try to keep the original version the patch was against in the name, to give some idea of how old a patch is. Admittedly this is less useful with the kernel because you guys have ridiculous version numbers,

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Chris Snook
Dave Jones wrote: For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as git-*.diff and lately, everything seems to have gone bananas, with no particular scheme at all.. nvidia-agp.patch,

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 10 October 2008 17:27:00 Chris Snook wrote: Dave Jones wrote: For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as git-*.diff and lately, everything seems to have gone bananas, with no

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:55:50PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008 17:27:00 Chris Snook wrote: Dave Jones wrote: For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Eric Sandeen
Dave Jones wrote: For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as git-*.diff and lately, everything seems to have gone bananas, with no particular scheme at all.. nvidia-agp.patch,

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Dave Jones
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:43:34PM -0500, Eric Sandeen wrote: As an aside - but maybe relevant - how much description / lineage / whatever should go into the spec file comments vs. into the TODO file? The TODO is pretty free form, put whatever you want in there. Pointers to upstream

Re: patch naming scheme.

2008-10-10 Thread Jarod Wilson
On Friday 10 October 2008 20:37:24 Dave Jones wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 05:55:50PM -0400, Jarod Wilson wrote: On Friday 10 October 2008 17:27:00 Chris Snook wrote: Dave Jones wrote: For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form linux-2.6-*.patch