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On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 02:23:49PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote: >On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:20:46PM +0800, Cong WANG wrote: >> 2007/4/1, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: >> >>> >Also, please always prepare patches in `patch -p1' form, as per >> >http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt, thanks. >> > >> >>> >> Sorry. I am confused with this. Does that mean I should make patches >> _upon_ the root kernel source directory or first make a copy of the >> original source code and then diff against the two dirs? But I was >> told that "patches should be based _in_ the root kernel source >> directory" and when only one file was modified just to diff it with >> the original single file. (See Documentation/SubmittingPatches.) >> >> Can you help out? And should I remake this patch? Thanks again!>>quilt(http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt) is your friend. >>cd /usr/src/linux>quilt new my-fix.patch>quilt edit mm/readahead.c>quilt refresh --diffstat>quilt diff>... Thanks. I will try it. ;-) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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