Re: tracking latest devel kernel

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On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:34:41PM -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> I'm using 2.5.70-mm4 to try out some things, but 
> I realize, as mm8 comes out, that my changes are
> against a kernel that will soon be old.
> I know that some people work against the current
> development kernel (see quoted article from linux-mm
> below), but since I am not using bitkeeper, I don't
> know the best way to easily move my changes to
> newer kernels.  (I use cvs, patch, and diff.)
> How do other people do this?  Like this ... ?
>   kernel$ cp 2.5.70-mm4-elc/.config 2.5.70-mm8
>   kernel$ diff -urN --exclude CVS \
> 	2.5.70-mm4 2.5.70-mm4-elc > elc.diff
>   kernel$ cd 2.5.70-mm8 && patch -p1 < ../elc.diff

I use the nightly snapshots at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/snapshots/

to generate the nightly updates to pgcl at
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/wli/vm/pgcl/

Believe me when I say it's far easier to update large patches against
the nightly snapshots on a nightly basis so the merge conflicts are
small and merging problems are closer to well-contained instead of
massive merge conflicts and widespread bugs introduced while merging.


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