[PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

[PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

[Shawn Landden]

kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow
scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.

Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/patch-kernel |    4 ++++
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
index 20fb25c..d000ea3 100755
--- a/scripts/patch-kernel
+++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
@@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ findFile () {
 		ext=".bz2"
 		name="bzip2"
 		uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"
+  elif [ -r ${filebase}.xz ]; then
+                ext=".xz"
+                name="xz"
+                uncomp="xz -dc"
   elif [ -r ${filebase}.zip ]; then
 		ext=".zip"
 		name="zip"
-- 
1.7.9.1

Re: [PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

[Randy Dunlap]

On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Shawn Landden wrote:

> kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow
> scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.

Other than xz file decompression, does scripts/patch-kernel
work for you in Linux 3.x kernel trees?


> Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/patch-kernel |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
> index 20fb25c..d000ea3 100755
> --- a/scripts/patch-kernel
> +++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
> @@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ findFile () {
>  		ext=".bz2"
>  		name="bzip2"
>  		uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"
> +  elif [ -r ${filebase}.xz ]; then
> +                ext=".xz"
> +                name="xz"
> +                uncomp="xz -dc"
>    elif [ -r ${filebase}.zip ]; then
>  		ext=".zip"
>  		name="zip"



-- 
~Randy

Re: [PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches

[Michal Marek]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 03:13:37PM -0700, Shawn Landden wrote:
> kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow
> scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
> ---
>  scripts/patch-kernel |    4 ++++
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Applied to kbuild.git#misc, thanks.

Michal