Re: thoughts on kernel security issues

From: J. Bruce Fields
Date: Tue Jan 25 2005 - 15:54:22 EST


On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 03:29:44PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote:
> This still doesn't give me any way to take a big patch and make little
> patches without hours of work and (N+2) kernel trees for N patches

Any path to getting a big complicated patch reviewed and into the kernel
is going to involve many hours of work, by more people than just the
submitter.

I highly recommend Andrew Morton's patch scripts, or something similar.

http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/

--b.
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