Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin

Horst von Brand
2002-01-30T07:53:53Z

John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com> said:
> I would be happy to serve as patch penguin, as I plan on collecting all
> patches anyway in my new duties as maintainer of www.linuxhq.com.

Complete with "Patches only against 2.4.17 through 2.4.19", "Doesn't
compile con ARM with CONFIG_FOO", "Works fine on AXP"?

Plus search capability: Which files does it touch? What functions/variables
change/appear/dissapear? Etc?

Looks like a _HUGE_ ammount of work...

> I am currently writing code to scan the usual places for linux patches
> and automatically add them to our databases. This would be really
> simplified by having patches sent to us. And, since we already have a
> functioning site, we have the hardware/network capacity to serve as
> a limitless queue of waiting patches for Linus. I would love nothing
> more than to update the site with information as to the status of these
> patches.

Again, as was discussed here: PLEASE do save the complete message. Oh, BTW
the following thread might have caveats, fixes, and important comments.
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Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616