Re: [Linux-NTFS-Dev] [2.6-GIT] NTFS: Release 2.1.25.

[Yura Pakhuchiy]

On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 14:56 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 16:48 +0200, Yura Pakhuchiy wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-10-31 at 21:54 +0000, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> > > > About me, I did not tested this code before, at least because you had
> > > > not posted patches to mailing list when you send it to -mm. Sorry, but I
> > > > do not have git repository.
> > > 
> > > That is a lame excuse:
> > > 
> > > 1) -mm contains the patch (obviously) as a single file in the split out 
> > > directory in Andrew's file space on kernel.org (where you would go to 
> > > download the -mm kernel anyway).
> > > 
> > > 2) If you had told me so I could have either posted the patches or put 
> > > them somewhere for you...  It takes me about 10 seconds to generate them:
> > > 
> > > cd /usr/src/ntfs-2.6-devel
> > > git format-patch -n <linus' head>
> > > 
> > > And I get all the patches output to disk...
> > 
> > That was explanation, not excuse. If you want people to test your code,
> > you should prepare it in form comfortable for them to test. Sorry, but I
> > do not have time for searching where I can download code you need to
> > test. I think that many others potential testers do not use git too, and
> > link to patch or inlined patches much more comfortable for them.
> 
> I guess I just assume that anyone using -mm kernels know where the
> patches are (in case you did not know -mm is not in git, it is simple
> pathes, one for the whole -mm and then there are broken out patches, so
> there is an ntfs patch).

Yes, I had not knew that. Thanks.

-- 
Best regards,
        Yura

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