On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 06:28:31AM -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 01:40:36PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > > I have to update the marvell-pegasos.dpatch patch, and this would thus > > warrant > > either a kernel-source upload or an addition of a patch patching the above > > patch in the powerpc kernel-patch. > > I have upto now refrained from doing the upload, since the changes there > > where > > mostly powerpc specific, but if nothing is going to happen with regard to > > them nextly, i think it warrants an upload. > > I am still wondering if it would not have been better to keep those patches > > in > > the arch specific package instead of the kernel-source one. > > Christoph, William, can you comment on those issues ? > > I'd be inclined to push this kind of thing in general to the generic > package so long as no generic code is affected.
Yes, but this means a potential need for new upload of all the kenrel-image packages. Altough it is true that it isn't necessary to always have the latest kernel-source to build. > Let me do a closer review and I'll send in another followup. Ok. My idea was that all thing that are (or are supposed to be) pushed upstream, can go in the kernel-source package. Friendly, Sven Luther
