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SubjectRe: Development tree, PLEASE?
On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 05:31:56PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 11:19:22PM +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
>
> > > -rw-r--r-- 1 davej davej 1753 Dec 15 23:31 linux-2.6-bzimage.patch
> > >
> > > To get around some gynamstics in the rpm spec, defining a seperate build target
> > > for every arch, we make every arch grok 'bzImage'. Fugly, but it keeps the
> > > spec cleaner to maintain.
> >
> > Yup - seen it before. Did not like it.
> > Consistent use of KBUILD_IMAGE across relevant architectures should buy
> > you the same simplicity and a mergeable approach.
>
> tbh, patches like this just sit there, as 'they just work', rarely need
> rediffing, the benefit to other people of it being upstream are next to nil
> (or someone else would've done it by now), and I'm more motivated to work on
> real problems like finding out why we've 3 different flavours of slab corruption right now.

Fair enough. I expected you to ask me to do it ;-)
Good luck with the slab stuff.

Sam
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