From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <374ADD94.BE39D764@univ-rennes1.fr> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:27:48 +0100 From: Martin Costabel Reply-To: costabel@wanadoo.fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: laures@esiea.fr CC: linuxppc-user@lists.linuxppc.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: Releasing more easy kernel patches References: <199905221002.FAA22379@lists.linuxppc.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: laures@esiea.fr wrote: > > Hi, > > I like to try patches on my various kernels. Unfortunately for the mid > power users like me, it's not always possible to get the bleeding edge > source tree for cvs, and anyway patches does not seem to be > always released against this tree. > > As Linuxppc-pre-R5 "ships" with a kernel source that has usb and pcmcia > stuff (so it's fairly complete), I think it would be reasonable to use > this tree (which is easy to get and install as well) as a reference for > all patches released for public testing here (I'm not talking of > linuxppc-dev). I think this is a good idea, but why not take the reference release as a reference? I think right now this is the same thing (rpms version 2.2.6-15a in ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev-rel/1.0/RedHat/RPMS/ or one of its mirrors), but I have the impression that pre-R5 may change anytime without notice, whereas RR-1.0 should be a bit more stable (until, of course, LinuxPPC-R5 hits the net :-)). > I feel this need because the new sound/brightness patch for PowerBook > didn't apply without any fuss into this kernel, mac-on-linux gives tons > of redefinition warnings (although the kernel works fairly well), there > were minor problems with latest Geert's aty patch etc etc. > I would be really more confident if the patches were released > specifically for my version of the kernel. > > If hard kernel hackers don't find the time to do that by themselves, > it's ok to send me the patch and I'll try to get the "correct" patch as > soon as posible. (be prepared to questions then...) [patch deleted] -- Martin P.S. Did you really send your message on last Saturday? It arrived only today in my mailbox. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]