Howdy. Per a conversation I had with dsd_ on #gentoo-kernel, I'm submitting this request. I'd like to see the patchset associated with a particular ebuild installed either into /usr/share/doc/<kernel>/README or similar file, or in a file "README.gentoo" in /usr/src/<kernel>/Documentation, or other, appropriate location. Right now, to find the actual patchset descriptions, I either have to: * Untar the genpatches-* patchset from my distdir, and read 0000_README. * Wade through Gentoo's CVS and hope I'm in the right place. * Go to IRC to find out that http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/ is not the place to go anymore. ;) * Sign up and monitor the gentoo-kernel mailing list. This isn't the best method for a user, as it unnecessary obfuscates the contents of the patchset. dsd_ asked me to assign this bug to kernel-misc. I hope I do the right thing to make that happen, but please adjust this bug so that it goes to the right folks. Thanks.
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Created attachment 345402 [details] unipatch_docs.patch This patch will be part of a series of patches that will be sent to the mailing lists and committed all at once to the tree in the near future.
17 Apr 2013; Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> kernel-2.eclass: Added a warning after the variables that modifying other variables in the eclass is not supported, there is a chance that we will not fix resulting bugs. Fixes bug #421721. Clarify the default DESCRIPTION and make it not use versions, a directory with ebuilds that inherit this eclass may contain multiple versions and we also don't want to give the impression that a new directory needs to made if that's not the case. Fixes bug #445110. Clarified which patch depths are used in the normal output and error output when applying patches. Fixes bug #436402. Made sure .tmp_gas_check is created inside the temp folder, it accidentally created temp.tmp_gas_check instead. Fixes bug #336732. Make UNIPATCH_DOCS work again, install 0000_README document when using genpatches. Fixes bug #301478.