Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin | Date | Tue, 29 Jan 2002 19:14:18 +0100 | From | Horst von Brand <> |
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John Weber <weber@nyc.rr.com> said: > I would be happy to serve as patch penguin, as I plan on collecting all > patches anyway in my new duties as maintainer of www.linuxhq.com.
Complete with "Patches only against 2.4.17 through 2.4.19", "Doesn't compile con ARM with CONFIG_FOO", "Works fine on AXP"?
Plus search capability: Which files does it touch? What functions/variables change/appear/dissapear? Etc?
Looks like a _HUGE_ ammount of work...
> I am currently writing code to scan the usual places for linux patches > and automatically add them to our databases. This would be really > simplified by having patches sent to us. And, since we already have a > functioning site, we have the hardware/network capacity to serve as > a limitless queue of waiting patches for Linus. I would love nothing > more than to update the site with information as to the status of these > patches.
Again, as was discussed here: PLEASE do save the complete message. Oh, BTW the following thread might have caveats, fixes, and important comments. -- Horst von Brand http://counter.li.org # 22616 - 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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