Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-11 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:25:37AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: * Marc Haber: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:52:59PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Cherrypicking makes little sense, because there are only cherries. :-) For my systems, I care about security holes being fixed, but I do not care

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Marc Haber wrote: Hi, A few months ago, I asked on this list for more informative description of patches enabling non-kernel hackers to choose individual patchsets for their local kernels. Unfortunately, that question was denied pretty fast. Looks like you guys don't have time to write

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:40:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: I think the effort to do so is better invested elsewhere. As a general rule, the kernel team strives to keep the debian-specific patches to a minimum. For people without in-depth kernel knowledge it's probably best to take the full

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:40:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: I think the effort to do so is better invested elsewhere. As a general rule, the kernel team strives to keep the debian-specific patches to a minimum. For people without in-depth kernel knowledge it's probably best to take the full

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Agreed. The package is not a repository for cherrypicking patches but intended to used as a whole thing. I am pretty disappointed about that attitude towards your users. What exactly is the problem with a little more docs to

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Matthew Wilcox
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:33:51PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Actually, the kernel of my dreams is more near to the vanilla kernel.org kernel, so I'd like to be able to throw out patches that you need to apply because of your _much_ broader user base. otoh, I would like to run a 2.6.10 kernel

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:36:47PM +, Matthew Wilcox wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:33:51PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Actually, the kernel of my dreams is more near to the vanilla kernel.org kernel, so I'd like to be able to throw out patches that you need to apply because of your

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:40:06PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: I think the effort to do so is better invested elsewhere. As a general rule, the kernel team strives to keep the debian-specific patches to a minimum. For people without in-depth kernel knowledge it's

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Thiemo Seufer
Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Agreed. The package is not a repository for cherrypicking patches but intended to used as a whole thing. I am pretty disappointed about that attitude towards your users. What exactly is the problem with a

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:52:59PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote: Cherrypicking makes little sense, because there are only cherries. :-) For my systems, I care about security holes being fixed, but I do not care about some obscure video hardware, or additional features. So Cherry is relative.

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:41:41 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Agreed. The package is not a repository for cherrypicking patches but intended to used as a whole thing. I am pretty disappointed about that attitude towards your users.

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:56:48PM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 20:41:41 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 08:25:33PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: Agreed. The package is not a repository for cherrypicking patches but intended to used as a whole thing.

Re: Classification scheme for 2.6 kernel patches

2005-01-09 Thread Andres Salomon
On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:01:38 +0100, Marc Haber wrote: Hi, A few months ago, I asked on this list for more informative description of patches enabling non-kernel hackers to choose individual patchsets for their local kernels. Unfortunately, that question was denied pretty fast. Looks like