From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 11:12:07 +0000 From: "Roeland Th. Jansen" Subject: Re: Linux-2.4.x patch submission policy Message-ID: <20010110111207.A4231@grobbebol.xs4all.nl> References: <20010108223343.O10035@nightmaster.csn.tu-chemnitz.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from riel@conectiva.com.br on Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:40:21PM -0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Ingo Oeser , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/