Mark Hull-Richter wrote:
On 4/15/07, John Summerfield debian@herakles.homelinux.org wrote:
Probably, you should be on lkml - the Linux kernel mailing list.
I used to be, but that was ages ago. Guess I'll be rejoining when I find it....
There is no need, or even point, to create rpms for each dumb mistake.
Oh, I don't know - I could screw up more people who were dumb enough to take my rpms....
:-)
If at all possible, you should be testing first in uml, xen or other
virtual environment.
I have a dedicated test machine here at work. It builds nicely and so far I haven't built a kernel that won't boot, AND I have fallbacks for if I do....
Seems to me that typing linux ... or xm create testbox
is much easier than moving to another computer, pressing reset (if it's got one!) or cycling power, or even 'reboot -f -n'
Okay, so you don't move to another computer. Still, I've heard UML became pretty popular pretty quickly with kernel hackers.