kernel pre-emption and software speech

[Steve Holmes]

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How does git differ from svn? I heard svn (Subversion) was better than
cvs but what is said of git? Elinks developers use git also.  It would
be nice to standardize on a single revision system but choice is what
it's all about I guess.

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 01:28:45PM -0400, Kirk Reiser wrote:
> Quite a few of the changes suggested in Adrian Bunk's suggestion list
> were implemented.  Others I didn't understand the criticisms and when
> I asked did not get definitive answers.  Some of the suggestions I
> didn't understand, I could not figure out how else to implement.  I
> have offered to rewrite sections of the code with help from many
> people that have offered and have never been able to actually get any
> help after the offering.  I have basically given up on the process
> because of lack of expertise on my part and lack of assistance on the
> part of others.  I originally worked closely with Alan Cox to get it
> in and it was mostly there and then Alan and Linus had their falling
> out and so that ended up slipping down the tubes.
> 
> I would like speakup to be in the actual kernel code because that
> would make my job easier maintaining it when someone else changes the
> kernel code they would have to be partially aware of the speakup code
> needing to be modified also.  As it is speakup works well for the most
> part and is relatively easy to patch for novices.  I am not going to
> try to get in the kernel code any more unless someone is really
> willing to help me with the modifications and answer my silly
> questions when I have them, which is often.
> 
> I have been moving speakup to git or I should say Daniel Drake has
> moved speakup to git but it is not ready for prime-time yet.  I either
> have to rewrite the checkout/checkin scripts or move to another system
> such as quilt.  My first looks at quilt have not been overwhelmingly
> encouraging because of what looks to be lack of documentation or
> tutorials or something.  I can't find anything useful reading wise on
> the quilt web page.  Maybe I have the wrong page who knows but Daniel
> gave it to me so I suspect it is just sparse.
> 
>   Kirk
> 
> -- 
> 
> Kirk Reiser				The Computer Braille Facility
> e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca		University of Western Ontario
> phone: (519) 661-3061
> 
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> 

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