Re: Patches for the ppc port

[Peter Bruin]

> Can you split the patches up by features, rather than directories?
> For example, all changes to device_open in one patch, etc.
> This would be much better to manage and maintain.

I agree.

> > Almost all changes are between #ifdefs, so applying the patches (at
> > least the ones that have ChangeLog entries) should be safe for the
> > existing code.
> 
> However, probably not the right thing to do :)  Depends on the ifdef
> though.

Sorry, I was being a little overenthusiastic. 8-)

> I would like to have the patches in Savannah, because that makes it easy to
> see which still need to be applied etc, and all the information about a
> patch is in a single place.  Please include the changelog entry in the
> patch, at the beginning of the patch file, before the actual patch data.
> The patch program skips any unformatted text in the patch file, so this is
> safe to do and keeps related information together.

OK, working on it.

Thanks,
Peter