Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3 [LWN.net]

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 2, 2005 10:56 UTC (Sun) by Blaisorblade (guest, #25465)
In reply to: Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3 by RMetz
Parent article: Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

I agree with most other commentors... -rc3 was really quiet, and almost only bugfixes were merged. And you can verify that with git-pull times, over a 56k (yes, I did it).

If you are frightened by the "merge" commits in git history, actually you must realize that they are, mostly, merges from special "high-priority-fixes" branches, with only a few patches.

Indeed, the only problem this time were some core "fixes" which turned out to be wrong (a few days before the release, Roland McGraths fix).

And (on my particular area) one of the latest patches from Al Viro, "UML makefile sanitized", which touches 33 files and broke things for me (yes, the title seems boring, but it isn't).

But IMHO in that case it's the sender who created the problem. In fact, if you look at the changelog, it seems nice and little, even if it can be nasty.

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Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 2, 2005 20:52 UTC (Sun) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link]

Why in the name of the FSM would you do a git pull over a 56k line you sick bastard? ; )

All jocularity aside, several gotchas due to patches accepted were reported, I suppose I unfairly assumed they were overly invasive.

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 3, 2005 0:24 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

Indeed, that's pretty bad because many objects are packed, so you have to pull large packs (line 60 Mb - that's many hours). For repositories that are not packed (e.g. git), one can use "git-fetch -t", which gets the current tree but no historic objects. I cannot wait when the git protocol is supported on kernel.org. Maybe I'll try the Mercurial repository (http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6/) - Mercurial seems to be more friendly to us, poor dial-up users. Although it's not of much value for me it I cannot track Jeff Garzik's netdev repository.

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 3, 2005 7:16 UTC (Mon) by RMetz (guest, #27939) [Link]

Oh, and sorry for the reply to myself, but the key management thing was what really caught my eye. Look at the long change-log. Not a huge deal, and I really don't have a problem with it going in, I just thought stuff like that wasn't going in after rc1.

I'm probably still off on how this is going to work.

Kernel prepatch 2.6.14-rc3

Posted Oct 3, 2005 17:12 UTC (Mon) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

Actually, most of the present slowness with git (over HTTP) is really roundtrip latency rather than bandwidth. Over a 56K modem, you'd probably be as happy with git as with anything else for getting that much data.