Re: Diff`s for MOL

[Michel <dae...@st...>]

Alan Buxey wrote:

> Hopefully the CVS update of the mol-branch was successful!!

The update yes, but you obviously haven't committed yet (no commit message).


> changes are to the following files:
> 
> M 2.2/arch/ppc/config.in

What changes have you made here? AFAIR I already re-enabled the configuration
option when I started mol-branch? Before committing, please double-check that
you are in fact working with mol-branch.

> M 2.2/arch/ppc/kernel/head.S
> M 2.2/arch/ppc/kernel/ppc_ksyms.c
> M 2.2/arch/ppc/mm/init.c

These are your local modifications, meaning your tree differs from the
repository.


> I guess that people who want to work on this will need to keep two
> directories....one for the working 2.2, and one for the mol-branch 2.2
> 
> - otherwise, how do you keep gcc compiling the clean , or mol-branch
> sources???  I guess i am correct?

In principle yes, but there are various ways to overcome that issue.


> One last thing....if you can see the problem, but cant use CVS (and
> believe me, the use of branches etc can be confusing!!) then please just
> email me the patches or snippets of code directly!! I'll be able to place
> them into the CVS branch straight away....lets not have any more delays
> due to people having to climb steep learning development curves :-)
> (dont worry Michel, I'll help anyone who WANTS to learn CVS/branches :-) )

My opinion is that if someone wants to deal with this low-level code in
development, he should take the time to learn about using CVS branches.


Michel


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