On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 20:04:35 -0500 Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew, > > I'm using http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ timestamped "10-Nov-2007 > 22:46". > > 1. I was getting a bunch of patch conflicts, until I realized that this > latest set of patches was to be applied against 2.6.24-rc2 (your mm.patch > gave it away :-) The last snapshot was against 2.6.24-rc1. > > What should be the official way in which people using the above URL know > which base to apply it against: is looking at mm.patch OK? That would work. It's usually very obvious, because the first patch is `origin.patch' (Linus's latest tree against his most-recent-release) and there's no way in which that patch will apply to the wrong tree. It just happened that the particular series you grabbed had an empty origin.patch. > If so, then > I'd like to suggest that you move mm.patch to the very beginning of your > series file: that way if the first patch causes a conflict, it'd be a > hint to the person to investigate why, and mm.patch is fairly clear about > it (moreso than when any other patch will fail to apply). > > 2. A related question: if someone uses the above URL for mm patches, how > should they report a unique identifier (ala git-describe)? umm, OK, I'll put a file in there called stamp-yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm > 3. I still have patch conflicts, with this series of patches: > > Applying patch..suppress-aout-library-support-if-config_binfmt_aout.patch > error: patch failed: arch/m68k/kernel/process.c:316 > error: arch/m68k/kernel/process.c: patch does not apply > Context reduced to (2/2) to apply fragment at 120 > error: patch failed: fs/binfmt_elf.c:961 > error: fs/binfmt_elf.c: patch does not apply > error: patch failed: include/linux/Kbuild:17 > error: include/linux/Kbuild: patch does not apply > > I also had to comment out these two due to new or dependent conflicts: > > suppress-aout-library-support-if-config_binfmt_aout-checkpatch-fixes.patch > make-frame_pointer-default=y.patch I warned you ;) > 4. With the above 3 patches not applied, I got a couple of compile errors, > which I reported separately. Yup, thanks, I refreshed it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
