Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:50:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:50:13 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193]:28171 "HELO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Wed, 17 Oct 2001 14:50:04 -0400 To: Paul Gortmaker Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Making diff(1) of linux kernels faster In-Reply-To: <3BCAB9B1.2F85F523@yahoo.com> X-Yow: I'm ANN LANDERS!! I can SHOPLIFT!! From: Andreas Schwab Date: 17 Oct 2001 20:50:36 +0200 In-Reply-To: <3BCAB9B1.2F85F523@yahoo.com> (Paul Gortmaker's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2001 08:25:53 -0400") Message-ID: Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090003 (Oort Gnus v0.03) Emacs/21.0.107 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Paul Gortmaker writes: |> This was all running under a 2.2.x kernel btw; might have time to |> test on a 2.4.x one later. Either way, it kind of makes you wonder |> why nobody had done this earlier What's wrong with running find on the tree first? IMHO there is no need to introduce an obscure option if there is already a working alternative. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab "And now for something Andreas.Schwab@suse.de completely different." SuSE Labs, SuSE GmbH, Schanz?ckerstr. 10, D-90443 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 - 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/