On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 08:29:35PM +0100, Tomas Nejedlik wrote: > Hi all, > > Well, IMHO there is one hidden question in Timothy's email that IMO > shall be addressed to SI core developers (Dann, Brian etc.). How can we > contribute to the baseline development of SIS, when enviroments in which > we are running SIS are IMHO very specific and differs a lot one from > another? Timothy mentioned his solution for USB floppy support, however > it makes the kernel bigger so it need not suite all of users. Similary, > I could not use SIS as it was but had to customize it really drastically > to suit our needs (PPP/GPRS support, ignoring some type of partitions > (ramdisk, loopdev), compressed rsync, rsync over ssl, customized kernel > and initrd, added some kernel parameters etc.). I can provide the > comunity with all the changes that I made to the SI during the > customization, but I am almost sure they will not be very useful for any > other SI user as my changes are tightly bound to our enviroment. On the > other hand, I would like all my added features/changes to be included in > baseline from obvious reasons :). Of course, it is not possible. So, > guys, how to deal with it?
in code you contribute back, it shouldn't break people not using your method. i.e., it shouldn't fail if it usb floppy support isn't in the kernel. we're working on a tool that will create a boot flavor from a running system, so it may make sense to add options to it for specifying what modules to include. if you need to add modules/binaries, and they are not needed until the second stage, boel_binaries is the logical place to add them. for feature X, i'd be glad to suggest acceptable ways of integrating it in. some features will require rearchitecting - but hey, that's a good thing. finally, you can then post boot flavors that contain kernels with the necessary support. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ Sisuite-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
