Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini wrote:
> On gio, 2008-07-03 at 12:59 +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
>> On Thursday 03 July 2008 11:01:17 Luigi 'Comio' Mantellini wrote:
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>>
>>> I know that what I say usually is ignored :D But I like to flood this ml
>>> with stupid(?) ideas.
>>>
>>> The actual OpenWRT considers kernels 2.6.X.Y and 2.6.X.(Y+1) as a very
>>> different kernels downloading the full sources for both. I think that
>>> this is not a good approach because this is time and band expensive.
>>>
>>> An idea should be to download the full sources 2.6.X kernels and just
>>> the patches 2.6.X.1, 2.6.X.2, ... 2.6.X.Y to cover the kernels with
>>> version like 2.6.X.Y. The result will be a gain in terms of band and
>>> time utilization.
>>>
>>> I think that to achieve this the download perl and make scripts should
>>> be made more smart than actual versions
>>>
>>> These optimizations should be applied also to gcc and uclibc and any
>>> other package that provides diff between versions. 
>>>   
>>> Thanks a lot for your comments.
>>
>> -ENOPATCH ?
>>
>>
> 
> I don't understand. What do you mean?

He thinks it's a good idea and likes to see a patch :)


- Jan
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