Hello.

Wessel, Jason wrote:

> Given that you know of no more recent source archive than I do, which
> source repository did you want to start from,

   With linux-2.6-kgdb-testing.git as being more recent and most probably 
containing all our patches from the last year.

> or did you have a patch
> tree against a recent kernel that you wanted to start with instead?

   No.

> I have several starting points which can be used to go forward to the
> mainline rc candidates.  Presently I was using the linux2_6_21_uprev
> branch.  Or I can take the git archive that Tom started and merge into
> the uprev branch as well.

   That would be fine with me since it would save me quite a lot of work.

> As an example:
> http://kgdb.cvs.sourceforge.net/kgdb/kgdb-2/?pathrev=linux2_6_21_uprev
 
>>>In terms of the location for the source control, would you prefer 
>>>kernel.org git to start with,

>>  You mean creating another one?

> Yes, I mean creating something new, because at this point we have
> diverged sets of sources and this will be the best means of
> consolidating everything into one stream of patches to be contributed to
> the mainline.

>>>or updating the CVS patches in the kgdb.sourceforge.net?

>>   Well, to me patchset being kept under CVS (or git) control 
>>looks the best for now.

   Well, I meant to say one can have patchset under git as well, something like 
Greg KH is doing in his stable-queue.git...

>>Do you mean to use git in this way or in its usual way -- to 
>>just commit the patches to it as they arrive (and ending up 
>>with a longer patch stream)?

> If we use the git, there would be a much longer patch stream because the
> commits would accumulate, and I am ok with that.  It is easy enough to
> consolidate changes into a logical set after there is stability.

   Erm... from my experience working with other projects, it may be not so 
easy. :-)

> Jason.

WBR, Sergei

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