Re: Patch to add SysRq handling to 3270 console

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:

>
> > > I considered the updates to be too late for 2.4.21.
> >
> > Too late and TOOO big.
>
> Hmm, last time I sent patches it was 24380 lines. You can argue
> about the dasd patch with 10647 lines which is big but the rest
> is just architecture updates that have accumulated over time.
> And its getting bigger if nothing ever gets integrated. And
> ALL of it is s390 only code. I skipped the common code parts
> which might have caused problems.
>
> The patch I sent to Alan was a bit bigger since it included the
> new tape driver as well (another 12000 lines) and had the latest
> bug fixes as well.
>
> Can we come up with a way to get the s390 stuff into some early
> pre version of 2.4.22 in a way that I have to cut the patches only
> once? It is very frustrating to spent hours doing patch-editing,
> only to have them vanish into nowhere.

Please send me split up patches as soon as 2.4.22-pre is out.