git help needed for 2.6.34 kernel branch revival

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Daniel Drake <dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the advice. This is effectively the "399 patches" approach
> I mentioned.

Yes indeed. I couldn't tell if you knew about using format-patch and
am separately -

> For the 2.6.31 to 2.6.34 move, no rebasing happened. The 2.6.34 kernel
> tree was simply merged into the 2.6.31.6 + olpc tree.
> I think this was a mistake, given that 2.6.34 doesn't logically follow
> on from 2.6.31.6.

Yeah. Ugly mistake.

>  And we should put more effort into upstreaming so that the
> amount of rebasing work is not so great each time.

Always true. Helps when you have a kernel hacker around. We've lost ours :-/

Any kernel hacker reading this should look at:
http://www.laptop.org/en/utility/people/opportunities.shtml ...


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