Re: Patches for the kernel

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

Well... usually a patchset is used as means for distribution. The developers 
keep using the cvs and track / merge the original source tree (in this case 
the vanilla kernel), while users patch the vanilla kernel using released 
patchsets against known kernels.

Requiring someone to copy files in the vanilla tree from an external and 
mutable cvs source is prone to errors, and forces the xbox "patches" to be 
applied before other patches, which is not always the best option.

Also, another problem is that most users will just checkout the latest HEAD 
from the cvs, and this is not always a match for the corresponding vanilla 
kernel. For example, cvs is tracking 2.4.27 while I need to work on 2.4.26. 
Luckily you have tagged the 2.4.26 release, so it's easy to get that "copy", 
but it's usually preferrable to have tarballs for specific releases 
ready-to-download and/or archive, in case the cvs goes heads down.

However, you're right. I can make a patchset for xbox myself, so I can work 
in the normal way. I just wanted to point this little "strangeness" out :-)

In case someone is wondering... I'm setting up a small cluster for parallel 
computing.

Cheers,
DaveXXX



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