[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-2.6.38-2

Dieter Plaetinck dieter at plaetinck.be
Tue Mar 22 14:37:33 EDT 2011


On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 16:40:58 +0100
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> We used to have lots of patches in the kernel (between 5 and 15), so a
> single -ARCH patch was created.
> Now, the number of patches is fairly small and I am thinking maybe we
> should go back to single patches.
> 
> Optimally, we could even have a git tree that tracks "our" kernel - at
> the time my git skills were not advanced enough to do this, but now I
> know how to do it.
> 
> I'm unsure which way is the most transparent.

a git tree to track our kernel seems better. that way users have much more flexibility in viewing diffs and so on.

Dieter


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