Re: Patches for the kernel

On Tuesday 21 September 2004 16:30, [email protected] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there such a thing as a patchset against a vanilla kernel to support the
> xbox or do I have to "mix" vanilla and xbox-kernel by copying the
> xbox-kernel files from the CVS over a  vanilla kernel?
>
> I would like to merge some other patches with the kernel and would prefer
> to work in the standard linux way (i.e. starting from vanilla and mixing
> patches/fixing rejects).
>
> If a cumulative patch is not available, is there a good reason or would it
> be a good idea if I create it for others to use?

It's not available mainly for the reason that it's not feasible to maintain a 
single patch file in cvs. 

If you want one, it's quite easy to generate, as you are probably aware.

Copy our files over a generic linux kernel, and diff to a generic linux kernel 
- bingo, patch :)

David



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