Re: [Quilt-dev] linux 2.6 kernel changes to support quilt

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

I don't think this stands a chance of going in upstream in this form; dragging 
quilt specifics into kernel makefiles doesn't seem a very good idea to me. 
Maybe Sam Ravnborg has a good idea...

On Thursday 08 July 2004 19:16, Joe Green wrote:
> I don't know if a patch for this has been posted here before; I didn't
> find it in a search of the archives.
>
> For Linux 2.6 kernel developers using quilt, the attached patch adds the
> QUILT_PATCHES and QUILT_PC directories to a list of special directories
> that are not affected by kernel Makefile targets.  Without this patch,
> operations like "make distclean" can delete files from the .pc
> directory, silently changing the patches produced by "quilt refresh".
>
> This patch honors settings in "$HOME/.quiltrc".
>
> Note, this is a patch to the Linux kernel, not to quilt.

Thanks,
-- 
Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden>
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