Re: [PATCH 1/14] LinuxTV.org DVB driver update

From: Sam Ravnborg (sam_at_ravnborg.org)
Date: 10/12/03

  • Next message: Hugh Dickins: "Re: [PATCH] page->flags corruption fix" 
    Date:	Sun, 12 Oct 2003 13:08:46 +0200
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

    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.

            Sam
    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

  • Next message: Hugh Dickins: "Re: [PATCH] page->flags corruption fix"