Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions
Either I'm blind, or especially dense today, or both (quite possible :-) but I don't see any reference in patch-kernel to the extra version information. EXTRAVERSION is defined in the kernel Makefile, and I tried using the script found in the 2.4.0-test1 source like this:
patch-kernel /usr/src/linux /pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernels
but the test-2 and following patches are not applied. All I get is "Current kernel version is 2.4.0." What am I missing?
Wayne
"Matthew D. Pitts" <[email protected]> on 01/05/2001 12:50:26 PM
To: Wayne Brown/Corporate/Altec@Altec
cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions
Wayne,
The versions of patch-kernel included in 2.3/2.4 support extra version information, so patches from Linus and others (i.e. Alan Cox) can be applied if proper information is placed in the kernel Makefile.
Matthew D. Pitts
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Either I'm blind, or especially dense today, or both (quite possible :-) but I don't see any reference in patch-kernel to the extra version information. EXTRAVERSION is defined in the kernel
Makefile, and I tried using the script found in the 2.4.0-test1 source like this:patch-kernel
/usr/src/linux/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/test-kernelsbut the test-2 and following patches are not applied. All I get is "Current kernel version is 2.4.0." What am I missing?
The distributed version of patch-kernel has only ever known about the "standard" progression x.y.z => x.y.z+1. This all gets horribly broken when Linus gets imaginative with his kernel numbering.
I have said before that I thought this was OK, because the people that need to cope with the EXTRAVERSION guff are people on the development branch, and should be able to patch the kernel themselves. The main users of patch-kernel are less experienced people.
However, this does conflict with the aim of getting users into testing kernels late in the development branch cycle. It also affects people like me who are lazy.
I don't think that getting the kernel version to support the naming scheme du-jour will work, as this would require Linus to update patch-kernel when he dreams up a new scheme -- and Linus is the one person I'm fairly sure does not use it!
For myself, I have a version of patch-kernel that does know how to deal with the wacky naming versions (because I'm lazy). In future I'll make this available to anyone that wants to download it for their own use, but I won't push to get it included.
A (temporary) location for the current version is:
http://www.alfie.demon.co.uk/download/patch-kernel
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