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Hello, Marco. |
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On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 21:27:26 +0200, Marco Rebhan wrote: |
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> On Thursday, 23 September 2021 20:23:57 CEST Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Where would I find a suitable kernel git repository to clone? An |
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> > "official" repository, whatever that means? Ideally, I want one with |
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> > just the various kernel releases, not one containing gigabytes of |
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> > intermediate versions. Where would I even start searching to find |
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> > this out? |
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> Hey Alan, |
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> The official repository I think is |
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> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/. |
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> What I would do is apply your patch on top of that, and then to update |
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> it, rebase the patch onto the new upstream commit you want to update to. |
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> This leads to your patches always being at the tip of the commit history |
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> and not somewhere buried between commits from upstream. |
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Thanks, that was a very great deal of help. Rather than downloading the |
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/torvalds/ repo, I went for /linux-stable-rc/, which appears to have |
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release versions going back a long, long way. It has a tag for every |
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such version, which is just what I wanted. |
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So far, I've constructed a clean patch which applies to 5.14.5, for |
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Jorge Almeida. Maybe I can clean up the others over the weekend. |
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I've decided to create a single branch for each kernel version I'm |
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patching. So, so far, I've got a branch called scroll-5.14.5. From |
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that I have recreated a clean diff file for that version. I may |
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not be doing a lot of rebasing, since I'm creating patches for already |
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released versions rather than keeping up to date with the head of the |
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master branch. |
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> However, this rewrites git history so you'd have to force push the |
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> branch to whatever remote you're tracking it in, so keep that in mind. |
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I don't envisage any upstream accepting my patch. The powers that be |
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were adamant that the soft scrolling be removed from the official |
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kernel, ostensibly due to security reasons. I may get around to posting |
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the patch on the Gentoo wiki, but for now it'll just be on the mailing |
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list, plus to any individual Linux user who asks for a copy. |
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> You could do this though and additionally have another branch where you |
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> track the patch files themselves that are rebased onto a certain kernel |
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> commit (you can export them with "git format-patch upstream/master" if |
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> upstream/master is whatever branch the patch is currently rebased on). |
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> That of course you don't have to then force push. |
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I'll probably have a more static system than that, doing a git pull when |
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after a new gentoo-sources is released. |
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> I hope this helps :P |
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It did indeed. Thanks! |
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> -Marco |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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