2003-06-08 05:53:30

by Dan Kegel

Subject: huge file drivers/scsi/aic78xx/CHANGELOG in 2.4.21-rc7?

Do we really need 23000 lines of "perforce describe" output
in the kernel source tree?

diff -Naur -X /home/marcelo/lib/dontdiff linux-2.4.20/drivers/scsi/aic79xx/CHANGELOG linux-2.4.21-rc7/drivers/scsi/aic79xx/CHANGELOG
--- linux-2.4.20/drivers/scsi/aic79xx/CHANGELOG 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000000000 +0000
+++ linux-2.4.21-rc7/drivers/scsi/aic79xx/CHANGELOG 2003-06-03 16:05:55.000000000 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,23260 @@
+Change 1861 by scottl@scottl-template on 2003/01/21 18:26:00
+
+ Update driver version to 1.3.0
+
+Affected files ...
+
+... //depot/aic7xxx/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.h#108 edit
+... //depot/linux_mod_devel/scsi.aic79xx/rpm/aic79xx.spec#25 edit
+... //depot/linux_mod_devel/scsi.aic79xx/rpm/install.sh#28 edit
+
+Change 1859 by scottl@scottl-template on 2003/01/21 15:27:08
+
+ readme.txt:
+ README.aic7xxx:
+ Convert tabs to spaces.
...


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2003-06-09 20:59:44

by Justin T. Gibbs

Subject: Re: huge file drivers/scsi/aic78xx/CHANGELOG in 2.4.21-rc7?

--On Saturday, June 07, 2003 23:11:23 -0700 Dan Kegel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Do we really need 23000 lines of "perforce describe" output
> in the kernel source tree?

The CHANGELOG has never been in the BK files that I submit. My guess
is that when the driver was last updated, the CHANGELOG file from the
tar distribution was included. I don't think it should be especially
if the BK files are used for the next update. In my merges with 2.4.X,
I have maintained file history even when duplicate changes were integrated
via "patch" instead of via BK.

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Justin