Re: Discrepancy between ftp.kernel.org and linux.bkbits.net

[Randy.Dunlap]

Post, Mark K wrote:
> I believe I've discovered an odd discrepancy between what is in the official
> Linux BitKeeper repository, and what is on ftp.kernel.org.  According to
> BitKeeper, the last time linux/arch/s390/config.in and
> linux/arch/s390x/config.in were changed is 17 months ago.  What is in
> ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.28.tar.bz2 was last modified
> on November 17, 2004.  The difference between the two versions is this:
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
>  bool 'BSD Process Accounting' CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT
>  bool 'Sysctl support' CONFIG_SYSCTL
>  define_bool CONFIG_KCORE_ELF y
> -tristate 'Kernel support for ELF binaries' CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF
> +bool 'Kernel support for ELF binaries' CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF
>  tristate 'Kernel support for MISC binaries' CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC
>  bool 'Show crashed user process info' CONFIG_PROCESS_DEBUG
>  bool 'Pseudo page fault support' CONFIG_PFAULT
>
>
> Admittedly, pretty small, but still disturbing to me, at least.  What's
> interesting is that this change seems to have been made to a _lot_ of
> architectures (14 in all) in patch-2.4.28-pre2.bz2, which is now in
> ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/testing/old/  That file is dated August
> 26, 2004.  This same change was included in -pre3, all the way through -rc4,
> and then the final 2.4.28.  The entry in the patch-2.4.28.log looks like
> this:
> Adrian Bunk:
>   o 2.4.28-pre1: add two SATA Configure.help entries
>   o disallow modular BINFMT_ELF
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this didn't make it into BitKeeper?  Should it
> be in BitKeeper or not?  This looks like some sort of process failure (or
> failure to follow the process), which is what concerns me the most.

Browsing bkbits.net shows that it is there:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/arch/s390/config.in@xxxx?nav=index.html|src/|src/arch|src/arch/s390|hist/arch/s390/config.in

so a 'bk pull' doesn't show it??  (I can't verify yes/no on that.)

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~Randy
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