On Thu, 23 Oct 2014, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 10/23/2014 10:26 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > > I propose we we a tag to help count the amount of times we actually > > have to do work in between release to fix patch manually. Not sure > > what to use though, any ideas? > > > > Manually-fixed ? > > > > The use case? Well it would help us let keep count for starters and > > see if things increase / decrease over time. This can also be used I > > suppose by some tool to extract these patches and perhaps in the > > future see if there's way to address these sorts of patches > > automatically somehow. > > > > Are the possible gains worth it? > > > > Luis > > From my experience making the patches apply isn't a big problem any > more. All the patches that broke often in the early days are now using > coccinelle or are removed because they were only needed for the older > kernel versions. This is a really nice comment :) julia > For the last releases I needed most of the time for backporting new some > functions which are newly used and for understanding why some stuff > breaks with some older kernels. > > Hauke > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe backports" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
