Re: Wrong patches
Daniel J. Rodriksson (djr@dit.upm.es)
Tue, 27 Oct 1998 11:27:05 +0100
kwrohrer@ce.mediaone.net wrote:
>
> And lo, G. Allen Morris III saith unto me:
> >
> > I admit that I am guilty of posting a reversed patch. While I agree that
> > it would be better if I were more careful, I am amazed that a reversed
> > patch has caused such a stir. This was a single line patch. Anyone that
> > can't figure out that a one line patch is reversed should not be running
> > 2.1.126. Also a reversed patch is not wrong, it is only reversed.
> > patch does have a -R switch and will even detect a reversed patch and
> > ask you if you would like to apply the -R switch.
>
> And if this patch makes it into 2.1.127, then someone sees the patch and
> tries it on 2.1.127, figuring that if 2.1.127 has it already he'll see
> some errors...whoops! No errors, and the good patch gets backed out.
>
This patch should already be in 2.1.126 ( the rest of the code I sent
is in the kernel ).
It will for sure be corrected and we'll all be glad
Cheers
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