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TiborB

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How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

Hi,
I'm maintainer of compcache PKGBUILD (compcache is ~ compressed virtual swap disk).
For proper work it needs to apply some patches to kernel....
I know there is an alternative to create another PKGBUILD for a custom kernel, but this seems to me an overkill.
I would like to include these patches directly into mainline arch linux kernel....

Is this good idea? How should I proceed then?

Tibor

tomk

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

The general rule here is that Arch will only apply patches if they have already been submitted and accepted upstream, so your initial efforts should focus on getting the patches merged into the kernel source.

Wintervenom

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

Compressed swap disk support is also in Zen 2.6.32 [kernel26zen-git].

Last edited by Wintervenom (2010-01-15 00:13:26)

TiborB

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

compcache is now included in vanilla 2.6.33 kernel, but small portion code is in -mm tree yet. But this small portion code is needed for proper functionality and this is what I would need to get into mainline arch linux kernel...

As to zen kernel, It is not easy to learn more about what is in this kernel, can you point me at a website or a person (email) I can consult and check that latest compcache patches are included?

Wintervenom

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

[Zen Kernel Home],  [Compcache commits in Zen-Stable GIT].

tomk

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

compcache is now included in vanilla 2.6.33 kernel, but small portion code is in -mm tree yet.

Arch kernel maintainers would probably prefer to wait until it's all in mainline, but you could submit a feature request for it - they might agree with you.

TiborB

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

Wintervenom,
I did not know about zen kernel at all, but though it would not be very good solution, it could be the best one. So I will post an recommendation to aur to compcache, that to get proper function of compcache one should use zen kernel...

But I 'm not going to install this kernel as compcache is not so important to me to replace mainline kernel...

tomk,
It seems that compcache will not be completely included in linux vanila kernel before 2.6.34, so that means about six months... In the meantime, compcache will not be usable with mainline arch linux kernel...
And can you please advice me how can I submit such feature request?

tomk

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Re: How to get patches to official/mainline arch linux kernel?

Use the bugtracker - it's straightforward.