On lun., 2011-02-14 at 13:25 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 11:02:53AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > > On jeu., 2011-02-10 at 10:51 +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > > > Please start with it. I don't want random code drops _right_ _now_. > > Well, I've started to setup a git tree, but it's a bit hard to make the > > kernel package git transition myself. > > I thought about using something derived from the stable tree. You need > it to do proper patch imports anyway.
I already use the (upstream) stable tree, but that doesn't give me the Debian patches applied, which is what really matters here. > > > > - Arbitrary fixes must go to mainline. > > “arbitrary fixes” are picked up from mainline, which is why I remove > > them from the patch since they're already backported into Debian. > > No. I meant the "arbitrary" fixes like the const-ness changes. Those are not arbitraty fixes, the const make sense if the rodata part is really enforced. This is the kind of thing which is upstreamable (though DEBUG_RODATA only does part of the job KERNEXEC does) but that doesn't mean we shouldn't have them now. Regards, -- Yves-Alexis Perez ANSSI/ACE/LAM
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