Wiki page for helping users send patches upstream

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 08:56:30PM -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 08:34 -0800, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 21:06 -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Is there a map somewhere of the Ubuntu intrepid kernels to stable
> > > kernel release? That could come in very handy. I'd be nice to have
> > > that linked or in the Ubuntu Linux wireless page.
> > 
> > This doesn't exist at the moment.  I'll try and put something together
> > and get back to you.
> 
> I wrote a script to generate the Ubuntu kernel to upstream kernel
> version mapping:
> 
> http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/kernel-version-map.html
> 
> It shows mappings for Jaunty, Intrepid, and Hardy.  I set up a daily
> cron so it should automatically update for any new release.  It's not
> yet available as a wiki, but I'll let you know when I have it auto
> updating a wiki page.

This page rocks.  This should probabally be an official part of the
kernel team information.  It would likely make sense to have this in the
kernel-ppa web site?  If you could send me the script I could look at
including it.

:)

-apw