Alpha platform support for kernel package (WAS: Re: [pkgdb] kernel: oliver has requested commit)

[Oliver Falk]

Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:59:14PM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>> Oliver Falk wrote:
>>> Dave Jones wrote:
>>>> On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 09:52:44AM +0100, Oliver Falk wrote:
>>>>  > Oliver Falk wrote:
>>>>  > > Hi!
>>>>  > >  > > Changed the subject, as happens that I oversee the mails :-(
>>>>  > > And this subject is more descriptive, isn't it?
>>>>  > >  > > Kyle McMartin wrote:
>>>>  > > [ ... ]
>>>>  > >> This all looks fine to me.
>>>>  > >  > > May I interpret this as a *GO*? :-)
>>>>  > >  > >  > Sorry to have been so blunt, but I'm fairly
>>>>  > >> new to Fedora, so I didn't know you were actually working on  
>>>> stuff, and
>>>>  > >> not just someone asking for random commit access.
>>>>  > >  > > Don't worry. I didn't get this wrong. I can understand you  
>>>> where  > > worrying. If I'd be in your position, I would react  
>>>> differently.
>>>>  > >  > >> I wouldn't worry too much about the linux-2.6- namespace  
>>>> for patches,
>>>>  > >> I'd prefer if they were just alpha-$patch.patch. davej, thoughts?
>>>>  > >  > > Whatever you prefer.
>>>>  > >  > > Let me know, so I start working on this today...
>>>>  >  > Did I miss the answer to my mail!?
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I was on vacation, and it fell off my radar when I got back.
>>>> Looked ok to commit to me though iirc.
>>>>
>>>> I've no really preference on patch naming. If you want to do alpha-*, 
>>>> go ahead.
>>>> but don't feel that you have to.
>>> OK. I'll commit the changes in a clean way, add CL, etc.
>>>
>>> We can still move the patches and use other names. Or any other change  
>>> that might be necessary...
>> I've clean up my changes and finally commited them (F-9 only). Plz have  
>> a look at it and if it's fine for you, I go on with F-10.
> 
> Looks like you committed them to CVS HEAD.  The F-9 kernels are being built
> from a CVS branch (which is how they are still on 2.6.27).  Is that what
> you intended?

I didn't want to do it directly in private-fedora-9-2_6_27-branch with 
my first shot. I hope that's OK with? This way it's in CVS and I can 
build from it for testing. Now that I've seen it builds fine, I can go 
on and approach the 'real' tag...

-of