Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:30:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:30:40 -0500 Received: from nat-hdqt.valinux.com ([198.186.202.17]:41468 "EHLO tytlal.z.streaker.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Feb 2001 15:30:30 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:28:36 -0800 From: Chip Salzenberg To: "J . A . Magallon" Cc: "Justin T . Gibbs" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans Message-ID: <20010215122836.B30852@valinux.com> In-Reply-To: <85F1402515F13F498EE9FBBC5E07594220AD85@TTGCS.teamtoolz.net> <200102151747.f1FHlDO64938@aslan.scsiguy.com> <20010215212007.A995@werewolf.able.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.15i In-Reply-To: <20010215212007.A995@werewolf.able.es>; from jamagallon@able.es on Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 09:20:07PM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org According to J . A . Magallon: > Please, I think it would be much more useful a patch against the latest > 2.2.19-pre (if that one for 2.2.18 does not work, I have not tried) > and the latest 2.4.1-ac14, that is what people experiments with. There's no end of versions that people use. Might I suggest that Justin imitate the maintainers of lm_sensors, and create a program (shell script, Perl program, whatever) that *creates* a patch against any given Linux source tree? Obviously it could break in the face of weird trees, but even minimal flexibility would save him a lot of work ... -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - "We have no fuel on board, plus or minus 8 kilograms." -- NEAR tech - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/