Re: Linux 1.3.45

Ben Wing (wing@netcom.com)
Mon, 27 Nov 1995 23:30:59 -0800

>> Linus Torvalds writes:
>> > I just made linux-1.3.45 available, with the following updates:
>
>> What do you think about the idea of putting these change logs into the
>> kernel sources?
>
>Better still, rather than clutter the kernel sources why attach them
>to the start of the patch files themselves? Patch will just ignore
>these comments, and the logs will always be easy to find.

The problem with this is that the patch files are transitory. It's
nice to be able to look in the sources and see a log of everything
that has been changed in the various versions. I used the 1.1.x
logs awhile ago, for example, to determine when SIGIO support was
introduced, since XEmacs uses it if it can. (It came in 1.1.56.)

Given that there's already a huge amount of documentation that comes
with the kernel, the change logs will be a miniscule addition.

ben