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Re: Linux kernel


From: David Craven
Subject: Re: Linux kernel
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 00:48:04 +0200

> Seems we already discussed some of these, no?

Ah yes, I missed this, sorry - No need to comment on this patch again:

>> Important note: (%current-target-system) returns a GNU triplet such as
>> “arm-linux-gnueabihf”, whereas (%current-system) returns a “system type”
>> such as “armhf-linux”.

>> In practice it works here, and ‘linux-libre-headers’ already does that,
>> so this patch is OK (can go to master).

>> However, we should augment the docstring of ‘system->linux-architecture’
>> to clarify that it accepts both a triplet and a system string.  Could
>> you do that?

> Anyway, I’m fine with you sending the remaining patches with ‘git
> send-email’; it makes it easier to comment on the code for me.

Done.

> Nitpick: Use ‘base32’ here, rather than in the callee (that way, base32
> parsing happens at compile time and errors are detected early.)

Good to know, I wondered why we always need sha256 and base32 :-)



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