Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/17][Kdump] Overview | From | Vivek Goyal <> | Date | Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:29:13 +0530 |
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On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 17:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > > > Following patches (as in series file) need to be dropped before applying > > the fresh ones. > > > > crashdump-documentation.patch > > crashdump-memory-preserving-reboot-using-kexec.patch > > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages.patch > > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages-fixes.patch > > crashdump-elf-format-dump-file-access.patch > > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access.patch > > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access-coding-style.patch > > At some point we should stop tossing out patches and replacing them in this > manner.
Andrew, I shall take care of sending incremental patches only next time onwards. The reason why I did this because changes were relatively large and I thought dropping the existing series and replacing it with new series (some patches retaining the old name) might be a better idea.
> Because doing so makes it hard for people to see what has changed. > > It makes it hard for people to see that changes in the above patches > haven't been simply lost. > > And the fact that you were probably working against some kernel other than > -mm gives little confidence that the kdump development team have been > testing the patches which are presently in -mm. And that is what they are > there for. > > >
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