On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 02:34:50PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > When building kernel-image-s390, make-kpkg would first apply > > > the arch specific patches and the the arch independent ones that > > > have not been superceded by an arch specific one. > > > > Again that's a very bad idea. Arch-independent patches should > > _always_ be applied before Arch-dependent ones, otherwiese applying > > MI patches will get absolute horror. > > Ok, but I still would love to see single patches instead of one big > patch containing all the common stuff.
The one big patch is very bad, I agree. > You can't really avoid > situations where you want a patch on all architectures except one or > two. This may be either because a patch breaks on one architecture > (which should be of course be fixed, but you might not want to > rebuild all kernels and modules on all other architectures because of > it), Right. > or because the same fix is contained both in the debian collection > and in the patch set published by the upstream arch kernel maintainer. No, for that case it shouldn't. Fix the upstream maintainers patch instead.
