I'm starting a new feature for linuxvm.org that I hope to be able to keep
current: reporting on new mainframe-specific changes and fixes to the mainline
kernel source that go through the git390.osdl.marist.edu server. For example:
commit 7d671f3e713fc5ff18a5227a8dc16dfdb8bc0664
Merge: d7d717fa889fc7a60c38497846c7618940a999d9
555d61d6542d51563e50532ff604dcd31c96fb24
Author: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Fri Jan 9 13:56:06 2009 -0800
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
[S390] update documentation for hvc_iucv kernel parameter.
[S390] hvc_iucv: Special handling of IUCV HVC devices
[S390] hvc_iucv: Refactor console and device initialization
[S390] hvc_iucv: Update function documentation
[S390] hvc_iucv: Limit rate of outgoing IUCV messages
[S390] hvc_iucv: Change IUCV term id and use one device as default
[S390] Use unsigned long long for u64 on 64bit.
[S390] qdio: fix broken pointer in case of CONFIG_DEBUG_FS is disabled
[S390] vdso: compile fix
[S390] remove code for oldselect system call
[S390] types: add/fix types.h include in header files
[S390] dasd: add device attribute to disable blocking on lost paths
[S390] dasd: send change uevents for dasd block devices
[S390] tape block: fix dependencies
[S390] asm-s390/posix_types.h: drop __USE_ALL usage
[S390] gettimeofday.S: removed duplicated #includes
[S390] ptrace: no extern declarations for userspace
On the web site, each of those line items is a link to the individual commits
that frequently have comments about why the change is being made, and perhaps
some details. See http://linuxvm.org/ for that.
For the truly geeky that are interested, I've automated the HTML generation via:
- A ~./procmailrc entry on one of my home Linux systems that feeds any emails I
get from git390.osdl.marist.edu to a Rexx (Regina) script
- The Rexx script pulls the email apart via normal Rexx functions, but also
invokes a number of Linux tools, such as grep and sed.
- After the script finds each individual commit, and creates the HTML to point
to them, it emails the resulting file to me at work so I can cut and paste it
into the web page.
Mark Post
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