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Message-ID: <4828EF2A.1090302@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 18:30:18 -0700
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
CC: linux-next@...r.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for May 12
Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> Hi Randy,
>
> On Mon, 12 May 2008 08:22:05 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 May 2008 15:04:18 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote:
>>
>>> News: I am now providing patches relative to the latest tag in Linus'
>>> tree. I propose to stop providing complete tar balls as they are so
>>> large and people will have recent versions of Linus's tree anyway (I
>>> assume). The patches will be named "patch-<upstream tag>-<next tag>".
>> Oh well. For the record, I don't mind using patches instead of
>> complete tarballs, but I would prefer that the patches be relative
>> to something like a daily -git snapshot so that using git is not
>> required at all.
>
> They will be relative to a tag that Linus adds to his tree and those
> tagged trees are always available as tar balls. i.e. yesterdays patches
> were relative to 2.6.26-rc1, today's (and until rc3 comes out) will be
> relative to 2.6.26-rc2. Or I could do them against the daily -git
> snapshots (or both). Either way it would cut down on the amount of stuff
> I am distributing. Currently there is already about 6G of linux-next
> tarballs.
That sounds fine. Relative to -rc's is good IMO (and for my scripts).
> I certainly don't want to make it harder for those who are doing such
> good job of testing. Does that make it clearer?
Yes. Thanks.
--
~Randy
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