[oe] [RFC] Updating stable patches in linux recipes

Marco Cavallini koansoftware at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 08:01:34 UTC 2009


Marcin Juszkiewicz ha scritto:
> Dnia czwartek, 9 lipca 2009 o 16:32:01 Marco Cavallini napisał(a):
> 
>> that's a good idea, but could drive to a huge overhead.
>> What do you mean exactly with latest stable updates?
>> How frequently would you check the stable patch availability?
> 
> I track kernel version RSS daily but work on kernel recipes less often. 
> But when I work on them I would like to know is it ok to bump it or 
> should I contact each developer who use recipe to get Ack from them.

+1 from me,
although I still have some doubts

1. how do you know who is responsible for each recipe, considering that
many of them haven't a proper header showing that.

2. many recipes are often used by other recipes, how can you check all
possibilities?

thx

/marco




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