Re: using bug reports on vendor kernels

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2001 at 10:15:08PM +0100, [e-mail] wrote:
> In article <01080923020201.04501@idun> you wrote:
> 
> > is there a site that would allow me to browse a list of patches added to 
> > vendor kernels (esp. RedHat). I need this to use an oops supplied by a user.
> 
> I mostly documented the patches in the Red Hat Linux 7.1 default kernel
> (2.4.2-2) at
> 
> http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/patches.html
> 
> But as this was a fair amount of work which nobody seemed to want, I haven't
> actually finished nor done the same for later released kernels....
 
The real question is why not include the documentation with the patch?
As Linus will probably tell you, patch is pretty smart about stripping out stray
commentary, e.g.,

	patch -p1 < ~/mail/apply

Regards,

  Bill Rugolsky