Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:08:46 +0200 | From | Sam Ravnborg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/14] LinuxTV.org DVB driver update |
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On Sun, Oct 12, 2003 at 11:16:03AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, David S. Miller wrote: > > On Sat, 11 Oct 2003 10:41:43 +0200 > > Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de> wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, I don't notice every patch that goes directly into 2.6 > > > without getting postet on the linux-dvb mailinglist. Now if someone > > > changes stuff in our CVS in the same file, it can happen that the stuff > > > from the kernel is wiped out. > > > > It is your responsibility to resolve such things though. It is > > inevitable and unavoidable that others outside of your development > > group will make many changes to your files, as we fix bugs that > > are tree-wide. > > So you best subscribe to bk-commits-head and monitor every patch that affects > drivers/media/dvb/.
Or more simple - keep a copy of the kernel where your patches got applied, and make a diff between that kernel and latest. Apply that diff to your local tree, and you are up-to-date.
This gives a good opportunity to review what has been applied without passing the maintainer.
And finally it also resolve potential conflicts.
And as always - the more frequent you get patches applied, the less burden it is to update to latest kernel.
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