Date: Fri, 02 Jan 2004 09:57:36 +1300
From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [Dri-devel] 2.6 kernel change in nopage
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 09:19, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> In contrast, full-file interfaces for different kernel versions are a 
> _lot_ easier to merge and keep track of. They may look like "duplication", 
> but the advantages are legion. You don't mix different OS's and different 
> versions together, and that makes it much easier to support them all 
> without going crazy.

Of course there are also advantages to _not_ using the file-per-kernel
version scheme. Keeping one set of files means time is not wasted
applying the same change to multiple variations, removes the possibility
of patches getting applied to one version and not another and simplifies
the process of continuing to support old kernel versions. For merging, a
bit of test processing on the files could always be used to remove the
ugliness and clean things up.

Regards,

Nigel
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My work on Software Suspend is graciously brought to you by
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