On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 11:37:09AM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > Guido, you're not going about it the right way. It's a three-way > merge. You take a kernel.org tree, diff it against the architecture > tree that you're interested in, and then wiggle it into applying to the > kernel source package that comes with Debian. It's not all that hard, > and there's a number of tools to help you (dirdiff, for instance; but > all I ever use is diff, patch, a text editor, and CVS/BK).
These diff some random CVS tree vs kernel-source approach also has other problems. At least kernel-patch-2.4.20-m68k reintroduces the oh so unfree firmware the kernel-source package removes..
