Why it would be good to have AC interdiff patches

Why it would be good to have AC interdiff patches

Post by Gregoire Favr » Fri, 30 Aug 2002 16:50:09



Hello,

I know I could do interdiff myself using the patchutils.
I have done it for example for patch-2.4.20-pre4-ac1-ac2.bz2 and it gave
the first reason:

1) patch-2.4.20-pre4-ac1-ac2.bz2 is only 26K (patch-2.4.20-pre4-ac1.bz2
   and patch-2.4.20-pre4-ac2.bz2 are both 1.1M), so as AC kernels are
   very popular, it would reduce bandwight
2) One could more easyly watch what has changed
3) The time for compilation would be smaller as you modify less files.
4) All script on kernel.org are already written for vanilla kernels and
   I am quiete sure it wouldn't be that hard to include the AC...
(5) With my ISDN connection it would be much faster to test those news
   kernels...).

Thank you very much, and in case of response, don't cc to me, receiving
email once is enough ;-)

Have a great day,

        Grgoire
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Why it would be good to have AC interdiff patches

Post by Axel Siebenwirt » Fri, 30 Aug 2002 17:20:06


Hi Gregoire!

Gregoire Favre schrieb am Thursday, den 29. August 2002:

Quote:> 3) The time for compilation would be smaller as you modify less files.

Somebody wrote me one time that it is always a good thing to make an
"mrproper" after I have applied a patch to kernel sources.

Is that right?

Thank you,
Axel
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Why it would be good to have AC interdiff patches

Post by Gregoire Favr » Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:20:07


Hello list and Axel ;-)

Quote:> > 3) The time for compilation would be smaller as you modify less files.

> Somebody wrote me one time that it is always a good thing to make an
> "mrproper" after I have applied a patch to kernel sources.

> Is that right?

Well, I never did...

Why CC to me even if I ask not to?

Thank you,

        Grgoire
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Why it would be good to have AC interdiff patches

Post by Tomas Szep » Fri, 30 Aug 2002 18:50:10


Quote:> > > 3) The time for compilation would be smaller as you modify less files.

> > Somebody wrote me one time that it is always a good thing to make an
> > "mrproper" after I have applied a patch to kernel sources.

> > Is that right?

> Well, I never did...

You're asking for serious problems. ld will often not fail when
the ABI changes and evil things *will* happen if a fc ends up
popping nonsense from stack.
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1. Interdiff of AC series?

Hello,

is there somewhere interdiff of the AC patches?

Thank you very much,

        Grgoire
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