[PATCH] Speed up modprobe and MAKEDEV

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 09:22 -0700, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 18:16 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
> > On Thu October 9 2008, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > Only if we allow source repo tags to be a suitable source distribution
> > > method.  Since fedorahosted still doesn't have an easy to use way of
> > > distributing tarballs, and getting the code via a scm checkout is quite
> > > easy, it should suffice.
> > 
> > If this is the only obstacle to get this done, I will write a patch for 
> > Makefile.common that displays the URL for every file in sources to fetch it 
> > from the lookaside cache. Then this URL can be provided as source tarball on 
> > a fedorahosted wiki page.
> 
> Why must we insist on tarballs?  Unless the tarball includes scm
> metadata in it, it's practically useless for upstream patch development.

I've been contributing to various upstreams based on patches to tarballs
for a long time.  It's hardly "practically useless".  Sure, working with
an SCM is better (and working with one of the newer ones is even more
so), but tarballs + patches are still quite doable

Jeremy