Re: n th's try to ask for help / non-X86 arch

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 07:02:29PM +0100, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> > I agree. The amount of work required to maintain a patchset increases
> > exponentially with the number of patches it contains... -mm certainly puts
> > me off, for example.
> 
> well, -mm is easy (yet) to follow, it has mainly tons of bugfixes and 4g/4g 
> and such. But the problem is, if you merge tons of extra features like I do 
> with WOLK and want to have features like: PaX, grsec, uml-skas etc. the 
> problem is to understand the code at all and merge all things up so it works 
> nicely (I am far away from understanding it all, it's often a try-and-error 
> session ;) ...

This is exactly what I mean. The problem is that even a seemingly trivial
patch will touch code that a different patch you want to merge wants to
modify, so you get a reject; some effort must be invested to sort it out,
and if you don't fully understand what you're doing, it may not work and be
next to impossible to track down.

Therefore, I'd keep the number of 'trivial' patches as low as possible.

However, obviously you know your way around the kernel a lot better than me,
so your 'pain threshold' is bound to be higher.

(I was not trying to convince you, just explaining my point.)

Andrew

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