Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:41:09 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System |
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On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> Also the requires stuff isnt going to be easy because you can't tell who > beat you to a patch and your patch _might_ still apply with wrong results so > that can't be totally automated either.
<nods>
BTW, any bug reports starting with "kernel is x.y.z + FOO42069 + K314 + <long list of patches>" will be cheerfully flushed down the toilet here, no matter what system of dependencies is going to be in place.
Even if dependencies will scale, testing/bug hunting won't. Anybody who has doubts about it really ought to recall the situation with Minix circa '91.
IOW, don't go overboard with the dependencies - number of simultaneous patches translates into number of people that have to be involved in any work on patched kernel and _that_ will give a bottleneck. Extra generality is not going to do any good.
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