On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 02:20:46PM +0800, Cong WANG wrote: > 2007/4/1, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >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 ... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/