Comment 47 for bug 213081

Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Now regarding the backports for Hardy. Brian, will you still be willing
> to help and test? Possibly run a git-bisect to narrow down the specific
> patches we'd need to backport? I can try to give you some pointers to
> docs to help with this. Let us know. Thanks.

I was surprised to hear from you again, Leann, because I assumed your
main concern was Intrepid. I've done some work on Hardy over the
weekend, but was losing heart because I didn't have the right experience
to make rapid progress. I intended to contact Stefan Bader this morning
to ask for his help, but let me make this a general request instead.

I use CVS and SVN a lot in my development projects, but I don't really
want to clutter my (paid) work with temporary kernel projects. What I
need most is a diff between all the tcp/ip files that go into the
kernel, using the latest Hardy kernel and the earliest alpha 4 Intrepid
kernel. Using the changes list (or the repository history) for the
intrepid kernel, I can start by reviewing Ilpo's fixes.

Perhaps you can suggest a quicker approach? Once I can lay the C source
out side-by-side, I expect to identify the relevant fixes. We then have
to map "the time tree" of all fixes to figure out the pre- and
co-requisites... we won't know if it is practical until we try. I am
reassured by the comment Ilpo made when he latched onto this bug - he
said he hadn't touched the code for a year or so.

If you want to take the rest of this investigation off the bugs list, we
can email directly or switch to a developers list. Let me know what you
think is most efficient.

Regards,

Brian