laures@esiea.fr wrote:

Hi,

I like to try patches on my various kernels. Unfortunately for the mid
power users like me, it's not always possible to get the bleeding edge
source tree for cvs, and anyway patches does not seem to be
always released against this tree.

As Linuxppc-pre-R5 "ships" with a kernel source that has usb and pcmcia
stuff (so it's fairly complete), I think it would be reasonable to use
this tree (which is easy to get and install as well) as a reference for
all patches released for public testing here (I'm not talking of
linuxppc-dev).

I think this is a good idea, but why not take the reference release as a
reference? I think right now this is the same thing (rpms version
2.2.6-15a in ftp://ftp.linuxppc.org/linuxppc-dev-rel/1.0/RedHat/RPMS/ or
one of its mirrors), but I have the impression that pre-R5 may change
anytime without notice, whereas RR-1.0 should be a bit more stable
(until, of course, LinuxPPC-R5 hits the net :-)).

I feel this need because the new sound/brightness patch for PowerBook
didn't apply without any fuss into this kernel, mac-on-linux gives tons
of redefinition warnings (although the kernel works fairly well), there
were minor problems with latest Geert's aty patch etc etc.
I would be really more confident if the patches were released
specifically for my version of the kernel.

If hard kernel hackers don't find the time to do that by themselves,
it's ok to send me the patch and I'll try to get the "correct" patch as
soon as posible. (be prepared to questions then...)

[patch deleted]

--
Martin
P.S. Did you really send your message on last Saturday? It arrived only
today in my mailbox.

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