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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@g.o>
Cc: Gentoo Dev Mailing List <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 22:17:51
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.58.0407091614320.5899@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] kernel team: please make up your mind by Greg KH
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4 On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Greg KH wrote:
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6 > There was a bug marked for this. Sorry for being quick on it. I was
7 > also told a while ago that the sparc team had their own kernel. I never
8 > thought it was this one (as the metadata file sure didn't say that...)
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10 If I'm thinking of the same bug here, the sparc patch had nothing to do
11 with it. It wasn't even being used on the user's architecture. As far as
12 I know the user never really said it was fixed either.
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14 > > > - development-sources are clean kernel.org kernels
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16 Isn't this what vanilla-sources is for?
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18 > > > - gentoo-dev-sources are the current 2.6 kernel trees for all
19 > > > arches. There is no cesspool of patches in there, and it is
20 > > > the kernel for the ppc64, amd64, x86, and a few other arches.
21 > > > Making it the sparc kernel too is no big deal.
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23 When we make changes like this in the future, please give us some headway.
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26 > Again, sorry for the speed at which this happened, I am very sorry about
27 > it.
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29 Not to be a totally insensitive person, but until we have a chance to get
30 the patch worked into g-d-s, I'd strongly ask that the changes to
31 development sources be reverted.
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34 Jason Wever
35 Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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