> How does the idea of a script which does the following grab you?
>
> * when given the directory containing the kernel source, and the
> directory containing the patches, automatically brings the kernel
> up to the current version.
done. it also fingered @linux.cs.helsinki.fi to look up the latest release.
> * Know the correct flags for applying the patches.
> * It checks for reject files, to let you know if the patch failed
> * It cleans up the original files after patching.
done, done, done. It also applied reverse patches to downgrade a kernel, and
handled full zipped source trees. It called menuconfig, make and lilo.
> * Makes coffee for you to drink while the new kernel is building.
nope. But I did all of the above in perl, with a nice dialog interface, before
Linus started with naming the kernel "pre-2.0" or "this-is-2.0-but-not-quite",
and I asked to myself "why can't people simply pipe zcat with patch?"
All The Best,
Marco