On Wednesday 16 November 2005 14:36, Rob Landley wrote: > Linus said this: > > I think one reason -mm has worked so damn well (apart from you being "The > > Calmest Man on Earth"(tm)) is because it's essentially been that buffer > > for anything non-trivial. Sometimes the "n+2" has been a lot more than > > "n+2" in fact, and that's often good. > > > > (And at the same time, -mm has enough visibility that it doesn't drive > > developers crazy even when the "n+2" ends up being "n+5" or somethiing). > > > > I'd _hope_ that the same kind of situation could work for some of the > > majos subsystem git trees too: where the maintainer tree is well enough > > known that it gets sufficient coverage for that area that a "+2" approach > > for merging into the default kernel is practical. > > > > I also think it certainly _should_ be possible for the big areas that > > have well-defined target audiences. > > And so I thought a bit about what that tree would be for UML (-mm? -bb?) > and decided "it's gotta be Jeff's tree as defined by > user-mode-linux.sf.net/patches.html", so I grabbed the big rolled up > tarball there that applies on top of 2.6.15-rc1: > http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/work/current/2.6/2.6.15-rc1/patches. >tar
Definitely Jeff's tree is a first filter for his work, but I've not seen it working a lot as a collector, especially for little fixes - but there it makes sense. I tend to send directly to Andrew and he forwards them to Linus (in many cases so fast that I wonder if they appear in one -mm release), but I currently do not have a public tree. > And applied them all (in series order) with a for loop. Can I suggest using quilt for this (as it's more powerful and easy to use)? Especially when you add other patches as compile fixups... -- Inform me of my mistakes, so I can keep imitating Homer Simpson's "Doh!". Paolo Giarrusso, aka Blaisorblade (Skype ID "PaoloGiarrusso", ICQ 215621894) http://www.user-mode-linux.org/~blaisorblade ___________________________________ Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB http://mail.yahoo.it ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the JBoss Inc. Get Certified Today Register for a JBoss Training Course. Free Certification Exam for All Training Attendees Through End of 2005. For more info visit: http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7628&alloc_id=16845&op=click _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-devel mailing list User-mode-linux-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-devel
