On Sun, 23 May 2004 21:14:36 -0300 Gustavo Franco <stratus@xxxxxxx> wrote:
| maximilian attems wrote:
| > hey gustavo,
| >
| > On Thu, 20 May 2004, Gustavo Franco wrote:
| >
| >
| >>I don't think that it's a search and replace issue and i've already
| >>posted some of these patches
| >>(checked by me and by the list). Just check the archives! Some of them
| >>were not processed
| >>by Randy, right Randy? But i hope that acme will look into it.
| >
| >
| > please when rediffing next time - take into account:
| > 1) patch-level one deeper than all the patches i saw from you
| > 2) do not strip the diff line above the acutal patch.
|
| Hi,
|
| I can do that if acme request, but actually i'm just following the
| SubmittingPatches.
|
| <quote>
| To create a patch for a single file, it is often sufficient to do:
|
|
| SRCTREE= /devel/linux-2.4
| MYFILE= drivers/net/mydriver.c
|
|
| cd $SRCTREE
| cp $MYFILE $MYFILE.orig
| vi $MYFILE # make your change
| diff -up $MYFILE.orig $MYFILE > /tmp/patch
| </quote>
|
| Let me known if the documentation is wrong and/or obsoleted and if i'm
| missing something.
Gustavo,
What kernel version are you seeing this in?
This (above) has been incorrect for quite some time now and was
recently corrected (on 2004-april-26).
Look in a 2.6.6 source tree.
--
~Randy
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