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From: Daniel Drake <dsd@g.o>
To: gentoo-kernel@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-kernel] New genpatches numbering scheme
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 23:57:06
Message-Id: 43F11D9D.5090403@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-kernel] New genpatches numbering scheme by Greg KH
1 Greg KH wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 10:41:14PM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote:
3 >> FIXES
4 >> =====
5 >> 1000-1400 linux-stable
6 >
7 > Why does this need to be so big? Why not just include the -stable
8 > patches directly, all rolled up (2.6.15.4), instead of all broken out?
9
10 Sometimes (admittedly not very often) we get clashes. For example, the
11 usermode-sources upstream patch sometimes includes UML fixes which are
12 also present in -stable.
13
14 This allows us to work around that with minimal hassle in the ebuild, by
15 setting UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE=1234 where 1234 is the genpatches ID of the
16 duplicated patch.
17
18 Daniel
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Re: [gentoo-kernel] New genpatches numbering scheme Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>