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Re: New XFS Survey Response



On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:47:08PM +1100, Keith Owens wrote:
> >Some kind of automated patch dump would be nice. I use the benh kernel
> >for powerpc, so merging by hand is a necessity, and sometimes it's
> >difficult to find a good set of xfs patches for a given version.
> 
> See ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17/README.  To
> patch other trees you need XFS split into its components which is what
> you get in patches/2.4.*.
> 
> It is quite a bit of work to take the CVS tree and separate the various
> components, it has to be done by hand.  These snapshots are only
> created for major kernel releases and when we believe that XFS is
> stable on that release, they are not up to date.  For automated patch
> dumps, fetch all of XFS CVS and diff it against a pristine
> Marcelo/Linus tree.

once 2.4.18 is released there will be no reason to run the benh kernel
tree on powerpc anyway, all the powerpc changes are merged mainline.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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