Re: [OT] Unofficial but Supported Kernel Patches

Randy.Dunlap
2002-05-12T23:33:14Z

On Sun, 12 May 2002, Pawel Kot wrote:

| On Sun, 12 May 2002, John Weber wrote:
|
| > I am trying to put a list together of all the unofficial kernel patches.
| > I am speaking of systems like Rik's RMAP VM, and others like it.
| >
| > I want to put up a page on linuxhq.com with all of these patches. If
| > you would like to have your maintained patches (or trees) listed, please
| > shoot me an email with a description of your tree (or patch) and what is
| > so special about it :). Also include URLs, emails, or anything else
| > you'd like published.
|
| What about http://kernelnewbies.org/patches/ ?

That's nice.

What I would like is for someone to maintain a set of
"required" patches to each new kernel --
"required" here meaning "these patches are needed for kernel
x.y.z to build or boot cleanly."

The patchsets would contain only compile/link fixes and
critical logic fixes to release and pre-release kernels.

This wouldn't be for me necessarily, as I already keep a
"fixes" email file, but I think that this could help
cut down on repeated emails on lkml about <2.5.19 has errors>
or "mounting a CD with ide-scsi crashes 2.5.11."

It could help developers, users, and testers get going
quickly.

--
~Randy