On Monday 19 February 2007 20:46, Paul Brook wrote: > > This is a sidetrack here... But is it at all possible to make future > > releases of the source more FreeBSD friendly? > > If someone puts in the effort to make it so, yes. > > Note that dumping the current patches from FreeBSD ports on the list is > generally not sufficient. Blindly posting patches without explanation is a > good way to get them ignored. > > All patches should include a description of what they are fixing (ie. what > qemu currently does wrong), how the patch fixes it, and why this is the > right way to fix it. For OS specific hacks there needs to be a good reason > why that OS is special. > If you can't answer all the above questions then you shouldn't be > submitting the patch. In some cases you may need to rewriting the patches > to meet these criteria. Individual OS/Distros tend to be less picky because > they only care whether the result works on that one system. > > Paul > > > _______________________________________________ > Qemu-devel mailing list > Qemu-devel@nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
Paul, So should I make a separate patch for each modified file? -Christopher -- Christopher Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 631-676-4877 Fax: 631-249-3036 _______________________________________________ Qemu-devel mailing list Qemu-devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/qemu-devel
