Re: [Xenomai-core] Patch selection by prepare-kernel.sh (again)

[Philippe Gerum <rpm@xenomai.org>]

Jan Kiszka wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>> Philippe,
>>>
>>> what was the idea behind commit #3256 [1]? It breaks the original
>>> behavior of selection adeos-ipipe-2.6.23-... in the presence of 2.6.23.x
>>> - and leaves a bad first impression for beginners (I received such a
>>> notice here...). Was this for the special case
>>> adeos-ipipe-2.6.20.21-i386-1.12-02.patch? But I think the common case
>>> should take precedence over this corner case here. Unless there are more
>>> issues with the original version, I would vote for restoring it.
>>>
>>> Alternatively, we could add a safety belt by trying to apply the patch
>>> with --dry-run first and only continue if this works out without
>>> failures. Can hack this up if it's acceptable.
>> Oh, this check already exists!
>>
>> So let's try this version, which additionally cleans up the related
>> documentation. Catches both 2.6.23* and 2.6.24* for me here, but I may
>> miss some cases (2.4?).
> 
> The documentation hunk was nonsense, here is a hopefully better version.
> 

Makes sense and works fine for the kernel/arch combos I've tested so
far. Merged, thanks.

-- 
Philippe.