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Greg KH wrote: |
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> On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:41:14PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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>> FIXES |
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>> ===== |
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>> 1000-1400 linux-stable |
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> Why does this need to be so big? Why not just include the -stable |
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> patches directly, all rolled up (2.6.15.4), instead of all broken out? |
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Sometimes (admittedly not very often) we get clashes. For example, the |
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usermode-sources upstream patch sometimes includes UML fixes which are |
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also present in -stable. |
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This allows us to work around that with minimal hassle in the ebuild, by |
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setting UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE=1234 where 1234 is the genpatches ID of the |
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duplicated patch. |
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Daniel |
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