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On 12/21/05, Luke Yang <luke.adi@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks for Greg's howto and others' documents (Such as the "kernel > hacker's guide to git). But I still have some detail questions: > > Which is everyone working on: the "latest linus git tree" or the > "-mm kernel"? I can't answer for anyone but myself, but I personally try to test both and look for problems in both. Most patches I submit are against the latest Linus git tree since Andrew usually handles merging that into -mm just fine. If I'm working on something that's currently only present in -mm (or radically different in -mm), then latest -mm is what I work on. So a little of both. >As I tried, the -mm kernel is only a patch, which MAY > can not be applied to latest kernel. For example, current > 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 patch can't be applied to current kernel without > rejections and conflicts. > The 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 patch applies to 2.6.15-rc5 as its name implies. Take a look at http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/source/Documentation/applying-patches.txt > As Greg pointed out, most patches should be tested on -mm kernel. > So I assum that a developer just get an exact 2.6.15-rc5 kernel from > git, apply the 2.6.15-rc5-mm3 patch, do some work and send out the > patch, then just stay there for next -mm patch? > Sure, that's one way to do it as well. > Thanks in advace! > > BTW: git question, Is there any way to get my .git/refs/ folder > updated through http? I mean not through rsync? > > Regards, > Luke Yang > Analog Device Inc. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||
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