Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:02:54 +0200 (MEST) | From | Clifford Wolf <> | Subject | Re: 3rd Party Patches / patches directory |
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> Is it too much to expect people to look at a web page on the off-chance > that somebody has written a patch to do what they need to do?
Hmm - I guess you are right and it's not needed to really include it with the kernel. But imo there are two importand things:
1.) This is _NOT_ thought for bugfixes. Most patch collections I know are full with bugfixes (and most of this bugs are allready fixed in the newest version - or the patch does not apply to the newest kernel). The idea is to have a collection of patches they extend the kernel in some way (like adding devfs, RT sheduling or more possible processes).
2.) It should be the _official_ site for this stuff - reffered by the Documentation which comes with the kernel. Otherwise there will be with time more than just one such site. I don't post my patches to the existing pages becouse there are so many that it's not possible to keep all of them up-to-date. If there would be one official kernel patch archive it would be much easier for me to keep the entry there up to date all the time and I would use it ...
- clifford
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