Re: [linuxsh-dev] Quick note about drop-in trees

[Greg B. <gb...@po...>]

"M. R. Brown" wrote:
> 
> * Greg Banks <gb...@po...> on Wed, Aug 01, 2001:
> 
> > Also the exact version involved needs
> > to be noted somewhere and maintained as part of the merge procedure.
> >
> 
> The convention I've seen in other drop-in trees is a file named
> 'AGAINST-2.4.7'.  That file is just touched.

  Sounds good.

>  BTW, I thought that the
> massive CVS tree was constrained to only one version :).

  Yes, of course.  But it's self-contained so the issue of managing
which mainline version it's derived from is moot.

> >   Now, does the drop-in tree get dumped on top of the mainline tree
> > or does it go into a sibling directory? [...]
> 
> The treelink.sh script (attached to this e-mail) symlinks the drop-in tree
> on top of the mainline tree.  So you always update from the orginal drop-in
> tree and rerun treelink.sh.  This is simple enough for the passive developer
> to do when the kernel is upgraded and the drop-in tree is re-sync'd.

  Ok, I'll take a look at it.

Greg.
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