On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:45:09PM -0500, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Just a general comment: If you commit a change, the date in the > ChangeLog should be the date of the commit, not the date when the patch > was written or submitted. I certainly didn't use to do it, so you will > find wrong precedence, but the FSF stated this policy a while ago.
Yes, I inteded to do (and have done) that at the time I commit the patch. > > How do people feel about commiting the NIC update patch > > (e.g. > > <URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-hurd/gnumach/trunk/debian/patches/11_nic_update.patch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0>; > > I can send a inline copy if someone wants to have a look at it.) It now finally found his way into CVS. I only left out the two files `pci-serial.c' and `pci-skeleton.c', which don't contain NIC driver code. > If it got sufficient testing by people who actually such cards (not all > cards, just some of them :) then yes, I think it can go in. Yes, this field testing has happened. > As a matter > of routine, personally I would go and check if the files that are taken > from third parties are actually original copies of the versions as > stated in the ChangeLog. Yes, I've done that. Regards, Thomas _______________________________________________ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd
