[Unionfs] linux-2.6.22-rc7-u1.diff.gz: polluted diff

Erez Zadok ezk at cs.sunysb.edu
Sun Jul 8 20:28:48 EDT 2007


In message <200707070920.57962.s.L-H at gmx.de>, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann writes:

> Hi
> 
> The latest unionfs 2.x diff against kernel 2.6.22-rc7 obviously dragged in
> newer upstream -git changes unrelated to unionfs, which conflict against
> current -git.

Stefan, you're right.  The problem is that we don't have clean tags to diff
against.  It'd be nice if Linus would tag his branch with -rcN each time he
releases an -rc, but it seems Linus hasn't been tagging in a while.

We'll be more careful in the future.  In the mean time, I've released
rc7-u2, which is a cleaner patch:

<ftp://ftp.filesystems.org/pub/unionfs/unionfs-2.x/linux-2.6.22-rc7-u2.diff.gz>

Of course, that patch will be quickly superseded by an official 2.6.22-u1
patch as Linus just released 2.6.22.  Stay tuned.

Erez.

PS. in addition to being cleaner, the rc7-u2 patch includes a fix when
renaming symlinks.


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