[PATCH 1/1 Try#2] clean-fiq.patch (was Re: [PATCH 0/3] FIQ)

Andy Green andy at openmoko.com
Fri Feb 1 14:56:52 CET 2008


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Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> By the way, the FIQ changes are actually an excellent example for why
> it's hard to disambiguate which files a patch touches: the two files
> this patch touches are in all three introduce-fiq-*.patch files, and
> they're even all affected by this patch, because their context overlaps.
> Pretty close to the worst-case scenario. I ended up just editing the
> .patch files directly :-)

Hah but in truth that layering is "best practice" to be encouraged... I
would be really pleased to see it coming in so I can understand what is
going on.

It's another indicator to me that the mokopatch methodology by
disallowing it to persist in SCM actively pushes us backwards.

- -Andy
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