Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267511AbUIOEgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:36:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267526AbUIOEgr (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:36:47 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:2515 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267511AbUIOEgp (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Sep 2004 00:36:45 -0400 Message-ID: <4147C6D6.30508@nortelnetworks.com> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 22:36:38 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Dilger CC: "Martin J. Bligh" , Anton Blanchard , Linux kernel , paulus@samba.org Subject: Re: offtopic: how to break huge patch into smaller independent patches? References: <41474B15.8040302@nortelnetworks.com> <20040915002023.GD5615@krispykreme> <119340000.1095209242@flay> <414799D1.7050609@nortelnetworks.com> <20040915014711.GA30607@schnapps.adilger.int> In-Reply-To: <20040915014711.GA30607@schnapps.adilger.int> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 644 Lines: 16 Andreas Dilger wrote: > Consider using a source-control tool next time ;-/. We used a source control tool. Its just not very useful when people do a port from one kernel version to the next and submit it as one giant patch against the new kernel rather than new versions of the original individual patches. I'm the one planning how to avoid this problem in our next development cycle. Chris - 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/