From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755734Ab1E3UKz (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10:55 -0400 Received: from oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com ([69.89.21.8]:48351 "HELO oproxy3-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750783Ab1E3UKy (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 May 2011 16:10:54 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=default; d=xenotime.net; h=Received:Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-Id:In-Reply-To:References:Organization:X-Mailer:Mime-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:X-Identified-User; b=h1FF9WY8Ycnz3qK9zvicdyagke6J2iLW2YaX3a7RRKrrBEN5gwBpacjjIYSMOCEKFg08tGGQngbnrN2EA8evfgr4r/Bsg13dbBgndvYFVxaFG2JL5XCGjWC7eQOOmlGn; Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 13:10:52 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: Steven Rostedt Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Turning off the incremental diff robot Message-Id: <20110530131052.8cc0c283.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <20110530194500.GE10792@home.goodmis.org> References: <4DE3E9E7.8020008@zytor.com> <20110530194500.GE10792@home.goodmis.org> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.16.6; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:45:00 -0400 Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:03:03PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > With the v3.0 name change I was looking over what might break, and I'm > > seriously considering turning off the incremental diff robot on > > kernel.org. It's not clear to me that it is actually useful anymore, > > with git and all. > > What is the incremental diff robot? > > Does it make the patches between 2.6.x to 2.6.x+1? > > > > > Do anyone actually use these anymore? > > If the above is the case, yes I do. And we need to update the ketchup > script as well. and scripts/patch-kernel needs to be fixed (or dropped). It will use the incremental diffs, but I doubt that patch-kernel or the incremental diffs model has many users (he said with no proof :). They could go away IMO. I only use git or -rc or daily tarballs. The only time that I have used incremental diffs was for a poor man's bisect, but git does it much better. --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code ***