Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?

Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?

[Luca Abeni]

Hi all,

Looking at patch-2.6.21-rc3-rt0, it seems to me that it contains a lot
of unrelated stuff, such as:
--- linux.orig/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ linux/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ parameter is applicable:
                        Documentation/scsi/.
        SELINUX SELinux support is enabled.
        SERIAL  Serial support is enabled.
+     SH      SuperH architecture is enabled.
        SMP     The kernel is an SMP kernel.
        SPARC   Sparc architecture is enabled.
        SWSUSP  Software suspend is enabled.
and so on (there are changes to the sparse documentation, etc...).

I am trying to understand the RT patch by looking at the code, so I am
wondering if it's possible to have a version of the patch which
contains only RT-related changes.


                                                       Thanks,
                                                             Luca

Re: Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?

[Ingo Molnar]

* Luca Abeni <lucabe72@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Looking at patch-2.6.21-rc3-rt0, it seems to me that it contains a lot
> of unrelated stuff, such as:

that's Linus' post -rc3 -git tree.

	Ingo

Fwd: Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?

[Luca Abeni]

Ops... I have just realized that pressing the "reply" button did the
wrong thing.
So, I am forwarding my last email to the mailing list

                                                       Luca
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Luca Abeni <lucabe72@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 14, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


Hi Ingo,

Thanks for the explaination
On 3/14/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
[...]
> > Looking at patch-2.6.21-rc3-rt0, it seems to me that it contains a lot
> > of unrelated stuff, such as:
>
> that's Linus' post -rc3 -git tree.
Ah, ok... So patch-2.6.21-rc3-rt0  contains both the RT modifications,
and the diff between -rc3 and Linus' current git tree?
Does git provide a simple way to get only the "first part" of the
patch? (I mean: the RT part only)

                                            Thanks,
                                                    Luca

Re: Fwd: Does the RT patch contain unrelated hunks?

[Luca Abeni]

Hi Ingo,

On 3/14/07, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
[...]
> i've attached the -git delta ontop of -rc3. The rest is pure -rt.
Thank you, that helped.

                                    Thanks,
                                           Luca