From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757936Ab2EUOxX (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 10:53:23 -0400 Received: from oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.38.55]:38275 "HELO oproxy5-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1756245Ab2EUOxV (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 10:53:21 -0400 Message-ID: <4FBA56E3.9060308@xenotime.net> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 07:53:23 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michal Marek CC: LKML , linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] scripts/patch-kernel: fix typos and compression comment References: <4FB9AD3C.3040909@xenotime.net> <4FBA2864.5010700@suse.cz> In-Reply-To: <4FBA2864.5010700@suse.cz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 05/21/2012 04:35 AM, Michal Marek wrote: > On 21.5.2012 04:49, Randy Dunlap wrote: >> From: Randy Dunlap >> >> Fix typo, drop trailing whitespace, and add "xz" to list of >> compression types supported. >> >> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap >> --- >> scripts/patch-kernel | 6 +++--- >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> --- lnx-34-rc7-pk.orig/scripts/patch-kernel >> +++ lnx-34-rc7-pk/scripts/patch-kernel >> @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ >> # >> # Nick Holloway , 2nd January 1995. >> # >> -# Added support for handling multiple types of compression. What includes >> -# gzip, bzip, bzip2, zip, compress, and plaintext. >> +# Added support for handling multiple types of compression. That includes >> +# gzip, bzip, bzip2, zip, compress, xz, and plaintext. >> # >> # Adam Sulmicki , 1st January 1997. > > You are editing a changelog entry from time when xz did not exist. Why > don't you instead add a note to the usage examples at the beginning of > the script, that several compression formats are supported. OK, I'll not edit the changelog entry. duh. > BTW, are you actually *using* this script? Wow, that would be two > confirmed users in this calendar year alone :). I doubt that anyone is using it successfully with 3.x, but I plan to make it useful. -- ~Randy