fedora kernel utrace updates

Chuck Ebbert cebbert at redhat.com
Mon Jun 11 21:22:10 UTC 2007


On 06/11/2007 04:46 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I've started using quilt to maintain backport versions of my utrace patches.
> http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace/ now includes 2.6.21/ (for F-7) and
> 2.6.20.11 (for FC-6).  Done this way it is easy for me to plop in the new
> utrace/ptrace code from the bleeding edge version when I have fixes, without
> repeating the backport work, which is confined to the earlier patches in the
> series.  
> 
> Since quilt doesn't have a handy feature for generating a single patch, and
> I know better than to trust combinediff, I'd like to switch the Fedora
> update kernels to using the broken out patches separately in the spec file.
> If one were actually trying to keep track, this also makes it a little
> easier to follow the changed patches in cvs, since there will be less
> flutter around parts that aren't actually changing.
> 

'quilt snapshot' can be used to make combined patches, but I prefer
the separate patches anyway. For FC6 I'd prefer to do the commits;
if you'd notify us when you make a change that would help.




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