[RETRY #2] Web100 kernel patch on fedora stock kernels

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Wed Oct 12 23:49:53 UTC 2005


Dave Jones wrote:

>On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:11:03AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>
> > >The actual patchfiles contain info at the top of the file (or at least a
> > >pointer to the bugzilla they're fixing) in most cases, though some of the
> > >'legacy' patches don't have any description yet.
> > >
> > It would be useful to add description to those legacy patches too 
>
>Sure. I'm getting to them one by one, but I've more important things
>to fix tbh.
>
>  
>
Right. This is just making the information better documented and  
transparent to end users. Has lower priority to fixing any actual 
problems obviously.

> > and maintain the current status in a URL and kill the Fedora kernels are 
> > heavily patched myth while providing technically capable or merely 
> > curious users more information on the patches.
>
>My http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/*/ pages have a list
>of patches in each kernel, though they are somewhat out of date now.
>
>At some point the patches in CVS will all be documented, and
>I can run some script nightly that auto-generates those text files.
>  
>
That would be great. Thanks

regards
Rahul




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