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Re: gnumach and gcc 4.0 (patch 1)
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: gnumach and gcc 4.0 (patch 1) |
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Fri, 20 Jan 2006 23:45:09 -0500 |
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 05:31 -0500, Thomas Schwinge wrote:
> I'm going to commit the following patch unless someone vetoes:
>
> 2005-11-05 Thomas Schwinge <tschwinge@gnu.org>
Just a general comment: If you commit a change, the date in the
ChangeLog should be the date of the commit, not the date when the patch
was written or submitted. I certainly didn't use to do it, so you will
find wrong precedence, but the FSF stated this policy a while ago.
> How do people feel about commiting the NIC update patch
> (e.g.
> <URL:http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-hurd/gnumach/trunk/debian/patches/11_nic_update.patch?op=file&rev=0&sc=0>;
> I can send a inline copy if someone wants to have a look at it.)
>
> Since all of the current GNU Mach NIC code is imported from third sources
> (mostly Linux and Donald Becker's drivers) and that patch is just an
> update to those and has been extensively used via the Debian GNU/Hurd
> gnumach package, I'd also apply unless there are justified objections.
If it got sufficient testing by people who actually such cards (not all
cards, just some of them :) then yes, I think it can go in. As a matter
of routine, personally I would go and check if the files that are taken
from third parties are actually original copies of the versions as
stated in the ChangeLog.
Thanks,
Marcus