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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