Posts tagged #gentoo-dev

git-lkml for stupid people (like me)

Aug 16th

Posted by Christian in Gentoo

OK, as Stephen recently asked why there is a double inclusion of in kernel/sysctl.c (and I asked Greg and Randy); I finally decided to write a patch to the LKML for possible inclusion.

But, git ain’t easy for people like me (who are used to the easiness of say – subversion or even cvs). So here’s what I did (thanks to Fernando for the help earlier today):

$ vim kernel/sysctl.c
// change something
$ git checkout -b sysctl
// create a new branch from your changes, based upon the master repository
$ git commit -a -s
// commit the changes to your newly created branch
$ git format-patch master..sysctl
// Enter a subject and then a separate description
// and you should have a new file in the current working directory starting like 0001-*.patch

Now you should have a mailable patch, ready to be sent upstream that looks like this:

From 839ce261cf688d62bebd9ae3a0101dd672018940 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Heim <phreak@gentoo.org>
Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:51:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove double inclusion of linux/capability.h
 
Remove the second inclusion of linux/capability.h, which has been introduced
with "[PATCH] move capable() to capability.h" (or commit c59ede7b78db329949d9cdcd7064e22d357560ef).
 
Signed-off-by: Christian Heim <phreak@gentoo.org>
---
 kernel/sysctl.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
 
diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c
index 8bdb8c0..9029690 100644
--- a/kernel/sysctl.c
+++ b/kernel/sysctl.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/utsname.h>
-#include <linux/capability.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 
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1.5.3.rc4

And if you wanna delete the branch afterwards again, just do this:

$ git checkout master
// Switch back to the master branch
$ git branch -D sysctl
// Delete the old branch named "sysctl"
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continued #gentoo-dev fun

Nov 4th

Posted by Christian in Gentoo

OK, today I finally took the steps of adding Hans (that’s Hans de Graaf), and just after I kicked him from #gentoo-dev so he gets his +o and suddenly Astinus took over .. but see for yourself :D 

(15:28) < @Astinus> graaff:  So graaff, what'd they con^H^H^persuade you into doing?
(15:29) < @phreak``> Astinus: xemacs ;)
(15:29) < @Astinus> phreak``:  hah!
(15:31) < @graaff> Astinus: yes, xemacs, and when all of that is in order I'll see if I can help out
with ruby and/or gnome
(15:32) < @Astinus> graaff:  to the former, good luck ;) to the latter, are you suicidal? :P
(15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: actually it seem like he is :D
(15:32) < @Astinus> phreak``:  Excellent, I see you went through the recruiting checklist thoroughly
(15:32) < @phreak``> Astinus: lol
(15:32)  * graaff thinks better than to engage in a troll-fest about gnome on his first day
(15:32) < @Astinus> (a) Should be suicidal to a degree less than ciaranm
(15:32) < @Astinus> (b) should have a passion for Gentoo, but not the stalking developer kind
(15:33) < @Astinus> graaff:  :P
(15:33) < @Astinus> graaff:  *bait*
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