Re: [Laptopkernel-devel] Re: patchit

[Stephan Skrodzki]

Am Fre, 2003-06-06 um 11.37 schrieb Sebastian Henschel:
> hi stephan and rest..
> 
> Received at 2003-06-04 / 09:09 by Stephan Skrodzki:
> > Am Die, 2003-06-03 um 14.33 schrieb Sebastian Henschel:
> 
> > > ok, i kind of made something up. get the pre-version from
> > > http://www.kodeaffe.de/laptopkernel/laptopkernel-mod-pre1.tar.bz2
> 
> checkout the update:
> http://www.kodeaffe.de/laptopkernel/laptopkernel-mod-pre2.tar.bz2

Great! Unfortunately I am only hotel-modem-connect until next wednesday,
so can't have a look at it directly... but according to your
description, it's om the way ;-)

> currently, there is only one system shipped: default. i wonder if it
> would be a good idea to ship many configs with the distribution. for
> now, i suggest to include everything we can get and decide on its
> "bloatness" later (and perhaps publish a download area for the configs).
> btw, feel free to make changes to the default config and send it back to
> me. :)

at the end... the very far end, it could end up as a debian-like
patch-get install <my-system> where the patches are wgetted from their
original source-site. patchit could be a well known packet, so that
people could provide on their "how I got my laptop working" site just
could provide the kernel- and the patchit-config. These are my wet
dreams for the future. Up to then, let's do any possible bloat.

BTW, I think the kernel building area is anyhow outdated like hell as
there are no dependencies you see with make menuconfig... if you change
a Yes/No in some networking tree, it hast incredible effects on the -
let's say - IRDA code. This makes live not very easy...

> > 
> > <system_name>Acer Travelmate 800</system_name>
> > <version>laptopkernel-mod-pre1</version>
> > <comment>Beware: I am working with /devfs, so check the
> > kernelconfig</comment>
> > <patches>
> > <include>
> > swsup
> > acpi
> > </include>
> > <exclude>
> > xfs3
> > </exclude>
> > </patches>
> 
> hmm, sounds reasonable. the problem is, that i do not want to parse xml
> files with standard shell utilites. has anyone of you experience with rxp
> or another command-line tool for xml, something that uses libxml?

hey, doing it in xml was just an idea ;-) 

doit like: 
system_name: Acer TM800
comment: Hey doo!
include: swsup acpi
exclude: xfs

;-) (perhaps you did that already, and I haven seen it because, I did
not get the actual archive).

> hmm, let's wait for the opinion of others as well.

Anyhow, the project does not sound very living actually, does it? I
still use the laptop-1 version from the project web site, but I would
like to have the clarity about the patches bernd and hanno made, as you
mentioned in your mail...

Regs
 Stephan