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The current development kernel is...linux-next?The current development kernel is...linux-next?Posted Jul 10, 2008 12:31 UTC (Thu) by aanno (subscriber, #6082)Parent article: The current development kernel is...linux-next?
I'm not sure that I have understood all the git/quilt obskure usages here. But I have the following question: Why is it necessary to rebuild linux-next on a daily basis? I understand that it is build on a bunch of special purpose trees. But after aggregating all this, can't we make a diff to last day linux-next and take this patch to check in a new linux-next??? This way all linux-next would be based on each other...
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The current development kernel is...linux-next? Posted Jul 10, 2008 14:48 UTC (Thu) by bfields (subscriber, #19510) [Link] "can't we make a diff to last day linux-next and take this patch to check in a new linux-next???" The resulting diff would represent all the work done by all maintainers in a day. It would be large, and not very logical. If I have a conflict with something in linux-next, then I want to be able to identify exactly the smallest logical change that produces the conflict, and who did it (in case I need to ask them about it). It would be difficult to do that if a single change that's checked in is a big agglomerations of unrelated stuff by lots of different developers.
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