On Friday 10 October 2008 21:23:34 Dave Airlie wrote:
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 15:01 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> For a while, diffs in the Fedora kernel have followed the form
>
> linux-2.6-*.patch
>
> Then, we started seeing some git snapshots show up as
>
> git-*.diff
>
> and lately, everything seems to have gone bananas, with no
> particular scheme at all..
>
> nvidia-agp.patch, percpu_counter_sum_cleanup.patch, xfs-barrier-fix.patch
> etc etc.
>
> Maybe I'm being overly anal. The linux-2.6- prefix is kind of pointless
> (given that duh, they're all going to be against Linux 2.6), but it
> does group things nicely in an ls output if nothing else.
>
> So, what are peoples thoughts on this?
The linux-2.6 thing groups nicely for ls, but make tab complete a waste
of time, and is pretty pointless as you say.
nvidia-agp I apologise for, it just came with that name from upstream, I
meant to rename it to at least agp-nvidia.
I don't suppose we could use a subdirectory called patches if we want to
keep ls clean.. this being the 21st century :)
I vaguely recall trying a test implementation of this at one point, and if I
recall correctly, it made rpm very unhappy. However, its been a while, maybe
this is doable with the latest rpm and/or maybe my recollections are wrong. A
patches subdir would certainly clean things up considerably, and then I think
a constant patch name prefix matters a lot less (certainly still could stand
to apply some standard formula to naming, of course, but it wouldn't impact
tab completion near as much anymore).
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Jarod Wilson
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