Ed L Cashin wrote:[snip]
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.)
Oh, and one other thing. 'cp -lR' is useful. (The copy is faster, and diff is too.)
tar -xzf linux-2.4.18.tar.gz mv linux linux-2.4.18 cp -lR linux-2.4.18 linux-2.4.19 (cd linux-2.4.19 && gunzip ../patch-2.4.19.gz | patch -p1) cp -lR linux-2.4.19 linux-2.4.19-mine (cd linux-2.4.19-mine && gunzip ../patch-2.4.19-mine.gz | patch -p1)
All the files that haven't changed are hardlinked together, so you don't use as much disk space. You do have to be careful to break the hardlink on files the first time you modify them, though.
HTH,
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