Re: Help with Installation

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 05:16:33PM +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Apr 2004 16:50:45 +0200 Bruno Ducrot wrote:
> 
> > tar xzvfp cpufreq-...tar.gz
> > cd cpufreq
> > ./patchin.sh /path/to/kernel/sources
> > 
> > Do *not* remove the cpufreq directory that was unpacked.
> 
> Why did you set up such a strange procedure?
> What are the advantages over a simple patch like the old ones found in
> http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/projects/cpufreq/   ?
> 
> I'd say a gzipped (or bzip2ed) patch file would be much more easy to
> apply (especially with automatic tools such as Debian kernel-package,
> that is, make-kpkg), but of course I may be wrong...
> 
> Could you please explain the rationale behind such a choice?

We don't have the (massive) resources to be able to generate a patch
for every single kernel version which someone may want to apply the
cpufreq code to from the CVS.

-- 
Russell King
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