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On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 12:00:29AM +0000, Daniel Drake wrote: |
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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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Ah, ok that makes sense. Looks good to me. |
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thanks, |
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greg k-h |
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