Re: mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-13-04-14.tar.gz uploaded

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:20:32 -0400 Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@gmail.com> wrote:

> On November 13, 2007 08:15:41 am akpm@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> > The mm snapshot broken-out-2007-11-13-04-14.tar.gz has been uploaded to
> >
> >   
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/mm/broken-out-2007-11-13-
> >04-14.tar.gz
> >
> > It contains the following patches against 2.6.24-rc2:
> >
> 
> <snip>
> 
> How exactly do I go about trying out this snapshot?  I did the following:
> 
> - exported 2.6.24-rc2 from my cloned git tree to a separate folder
> - installed quilt
> - extracted the patches to the "patches" directory at the top level of the 
> 2.6.24-rc2 tree
> - copied the list of patches from your mail into a "series" file which I 
> placed in the "patches" directory

The tarball contains a copy of the series file.  For some reason LARGE
numbers of people miss it and ask me "hey, where's the series file?".  Odd.

> - ran "quilt push -a"
> 
> The result was that all of the patches seem to have been applied, but there 
> were many offsets and at least one fuzzed patch.  Should they have applied 
> cleanly?  Is quilt the way I am supposed to be applying these patches?

Yes, the -mm patches contain large amount of fuzz.  I'll occasionally go in
and do a mass defuzzing (shaving?) but it all goes fuzzy again within a
day.

I _could_ rediff all the time, but I keep all the patches under revision
control and I often need to grab the previous version of a patch (when I've
just dropped an earlier patch, and that earlier patch had caused me to redo
this patch).  Having lots of revisions due to unnecessary rediffing would
complicate that.

>  Is 
> there a reason that there is no "series" file in the archive with the 
> patches?

It's in there ;)

btw, I put the patches in a directory called "broken-out" so that you can
untar them in your kernel tree and not have them stomped all over your
existing patches/ directory.  symlink it...