Sam Folk-Williams wrote: > Hi, > > I (with DaveJ) help maintain the kernel release notes for Fedora. A user suggested a > while back that we remove the building instructions from the release notes and > put those in a separate doc devoted to more detailed instructions on building > the kernel RPM (including applying patches and configuring options). > > I've got a draft doc now. I come to this from a support perspective - building > kernels with patches I get from Engineering to pass on for testing. I'd like to > get the point of view of some kernel developers as well. > > - Is what's here correct? > - Is there more that should be here? > - Does the info here conform to best practices? > > Any feedback appreciated. I am happy to make edits myself if you reply, or of > course any one can make edits on their own. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/CustomKernel > When copying the kernel tree, the second copy should be: cp -alv ~/rpmbuild/redhat/kernel-2.6.x.orig ~/rpmbuild/redhat/kernel-2.6.x.new this will hardlink the original and new trees so diff will run much faster. Hardlinks should not present a problem because text editors know how to break them -- Midnight Commander now asks, so maybe a note telling people about the hardlinks could be added there as well. _______________________________________________ Fedora-kernel-list mailing list Fedora-kernel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-kernel-list
