Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200 | From | Uwe Kleine-König <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned |
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Hello,
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:21:58PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800, "Wang, Yalin" said: > > > I am really confused, > > I read this web: > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php > > it said use diff -urN to generate patch like this: > > > > diff -Nru linux.orig/lib/string.c linux/lib/string.c > > > > but I see other developers use git format-patch to generate patch and > > submit to the patch system. > > Git format-patch format can also be accepted by the patch system correctly ? > > If yes, I think this web should update, > > Use git format-patch to generate patch is more convenient than use diff -urN > > 'diff -urN' has the advantage that it will work against a tree extracted > from a release tarball, and doesn't have a requirement that you have git That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1).
Best regards Uwe
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