Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-04 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 22:00:19 -0400 Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: Here's my user, not-a-developer, perspective. I think that there should be a mechanism to enable one patch at a time. Here's the rationale... Haven't tried this myself but I believe UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE using the

[gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-03 Thread Steven J. Long
Tom Wijsman wrote: Greg KH wrote: On Mon, Jul 01, 2013 at 09:25:42PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Mon, 1 Jul 2013 14:09:57 -0500 Matthew Summers quantumsumm...@gentoo.org wrote: If the patchset patches the kernel's core, it doesn't matter what CONFIG_* option is set the core

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-03 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 3 Jul 2013 11:45:55 +0100 Steven J. Long sl...@rathaus.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Tom Wijsman wrote: Earlier I mentioned 3) The patch should not affect the build by default.; if it does, we have to adjust it to not do that, this is something that can be easily scripted. If it

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Re: [gentoo-kernel] Proper distribution integration of kernel *-sources, patches and configuration.

2013-07-03 Thread Walter Dnes
On Wed, Jul 03, 2013 at 02:42:56PM +0200, Tom Wijsman wrote With USE=-experimental (which will be the default) they are excluded by default, after enabling that the user can exclude patches by setting UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE through the package.env mechanism. Here's my user, not-a-developer,