> On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > linux-kernel-announce Announcements of new Linux kernels
> > linux-kernel-patch Actual, uuencoded Linux kernel patches
>
> Let me be the first to thank Mr. Anvin for setting this up. This should be
> a wonderful resource, and should be much easier on Transmeta machines and
> links than cron'd ftp jobs and daemons that batter at their systems from
> all over the 'net.
H. Peter, do You plan to mail the diffstats on linux-kernel-announce?
This may show people if there are changes in the areas they are looking
for. And it will show that some huge patches aren't really huge but just
include new drivers.
I append an example of the small .29 patch as a demonstration...
Hubert mantel@suse.de
Mandelbrot:/kernel/tmp # zcat patch-2.0.29.gz | diffstat
MAINTAINERS | 6 ++++
Makefile | 2 -
arch/alpha/kernel/bios32.c | 2 -
arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c | 4 +-
arch/i386/kernel/irq.c | 3 +-
drivers/block/ide-cd.c | 64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
drivers/pci/pci.c | 1
drivers/scsi/AM53C974.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++---
drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c | 1
fs/nfs/bio.c | 3 ++
fs/nfs/rpcsock.c | 3 ++
include/linux/pci.h | 1
include/scsi/scsi.h | 2 +
net/ipv4/arp.c | 12 ++++----
net/ipv4/ip_input.c | 6 ++--
15 files changed, 107 insertions, 34 deletions