Jarkko Sakkinen on Nostr: Doing a distribution kernel for testing feature patch in Fedora is actually quite ...

Doing a distribution kernel for testing feature patch in Fedora is actually quite trivial now that I see the forest, and not only trees.

Up to the SRPM's it is exactly these steps:

1. git clone git@gitlab.com:cki-project/kernel-ark.git && cd kernel-ark
2. git -C ~/work/kernel.org/jarkko/linux-tpmdd diff master..v4l2-loopback > redhat/linux-kernel-test.patch
3. make dist-test-patch
4. make dist-srpm

Cool: three (!) weeks of improving my QA flows but now I can move on to the API breaking changes in the V4L2 loopback device :-) It is easier to develop the test code for anonymous inode version when you have the driver running in your desktop. Otherwise, it would be super painful.

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I'd like to remark steps two and three because those I added by trial and failure and peeking at redhat/Makefile. It probably would make sense to put a remark here: https://cki-project.gitlab.io/kernel-ark/

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