On 08/01/07, Ramagudi Naziir <naziirr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello. How do you people do your meta kernel hacking ? I mean source management, creating, sending and applying patches ? do you use git ? is it comfortable ? any good tutorial ?
In the past I just kept a copy of the original source tree in one dir, then did my hacking in a copy, then later diff'ed the two dirs. These days I mainly use git. Some people use quilt. The 'Kernel Hackers' Guide to git' at http://linux.yyz.us/git-howto.html is a good place to start if you want to learn git. The git man pages and and documentation at the git website (http://git.or.cz/) are also good sources of info.
what mailer do you use ? is your mailer comfortable for sending and receiving patches ?
I sometimes use pine, sometimes kmail and both work just fine for sending patches.
do you think gmail is good for sending patches ?
The web interface is useless, but both pine and kmail (and other clients as well) can be setup to send/recieve gmail mail and that way gmail is perfectly usable for sending patches. See https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&topic=1556 for details. -- Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@xxxxxxxxx> Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
