Messages in this thread | | | From | Russell King <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: Linux Kernel Patch Management System | Date | Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:57:38 +0100 (BST) |
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Richard Gooch writes: > in a patch, then an email is sent to <email> stating that a patch with > ID <id> has been applied. This would allow for automatic notification > of the patch author when their patch has been applied. All that is > needed is for Linus to update his patch binary.
Why would the patch binary have to be touched? Do it the Unix way(tm) and have a wrapper around patch which detects the relevent line in the patch. (Note that patch will ignore any non-patch lines automagically). _____ |_____| ------------------------------------------------- ---+---+- | | Russell King rmk@arm.linux.org.uk --- --- | | | | http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html / / | | +-+-+ --- -+- / | THE developer of ARM Linux |+| /|\ / | | | --- | +-+-+ ------------------------------------------------- /\\\ | - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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