Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:12:07 +0000 | From | "Roeland Th. Jansen" <> | Subject | Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy |
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On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:40:21PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > I wasn't aware Andrea switched the way he stored his patches > lately ;)
he's doing that for quite some time now (for suse's kernels too) and that works pretty well :-)
> OTOH, the advantage of having a big patch means that it's > easier for me to get people to test all of the things I > have. Guess I'll need to find a way to easily get both the > small and the big patches ;)
the trouble with that is also that the whole patch must be checked again and again if a new version is being sent out. Andrea's patches have th epossibility to be applied for several versions and indeed are easy to use -- apply what you want.
it made SMP testing more fun compared to the big patches where nobody exactly knows what patch may have caused [in]stability.
I for instance have the daunting task to check why 2.4.0 here crashes so easily without messages, except some occasional APIC error. yuck. -- Grobbebol's Home | Don't give in to spammers. -o) http://www.xs4all.nl/~bengel | Use your real e-mail address /\ Linux 2.2.16 SMP 2x466MHz / 256 MB | on Usenet. _\_v - 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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