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hi,

i am trying to chase some bug and i know, it must be somewhere between 2.6.4 and
2.6.5. the 2.6.5 patch is 7.0 MB (unpacked). although i am pretty sure the lines
starting with "diff -Nru a/Documentation" do seem to be involved with the issue,
i am not a programmer and often have to use brute-force methods as described in
"BUG-HUNTING". that said, i'd like to know, if there is a possibility to find
out the different sets that generated this "patch-2.6.5.bz2".

correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't it like:
- $scsi-maintainer sent in these patches
- $ppc_maintainer sent in those patches
- fix from author_x
- more fixes from author_y

and then this whole thing is cat'ed altogether to the very patch-file.bz2?
could one compile a tar.[bz2|gz] from the patch-sets, before putting it into one
large patch-file?

hm, maybe it's done in another way.
the thing is: even when i say: "hm, this is a ppc issue, so i'll cut out all
diff's touching arch/ppc/ (i.e. from "$ppc_maintainer") -> the kernel might not
compile then, and i have to wait until compilation is almost finished, just to
find out that something under drivers/char was referencing a change in arch/ppc.

when i could know "oh, the guy who changed arch/ppc also touched drivers/char",
i would cut out _both_ and the kernel would at least compile.

perhaps the whole process of releasing a patch is way more complex than i think
here, but perhaps someone has some thoughts on it. just now compilation of
2.5.6-rc1 failed. i hoped it would at least compile, because it's "only" 4MB to
search for the bug then.

Thank you,
Christian.
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