On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 04:20:22PM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote: > >If you look at the existing patches generally do not add new features but > >contain bug fixes in order to fix the problem sooner and usually are > >later merged into the upstream kernel. > > Is there some way to tell for each patch where it came from and what it's > status is upstream? Like a kernel.org bugzilla entry (or whatever they > use). How does the kernel maintainer know when it's time to pull a patch > out of the RPM? It's usually time to pull it when it no longer applies to the latest upstream :-) The actual patchfiles contain info at the top of the file (or at least a pointer to the bugzilla they're fixing) in most cases, though some of the 'legacy' patches don't have any description yet. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
