From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
To: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>
Cc: "'Catalin Marinas'" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
"Russell King - ARM Linux" <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Will Deacon" <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
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"'linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
"'Uwe Kleine-König'" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>,
DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux
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Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:21:58 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800." <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB49163B@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net>
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On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800, "Wang, Yalin" said:
> I am really confused,
> I read this web:
> http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php
> it said use diff -urN to generate patch like this:
>
> diff -Nru linux.orig/lib/string.c linux/lib/string.c
>
> but I see other developers use git format-patch to generate patch and
> submit to the patch system.
> Git format-patch format can also be accepted by the patch system correctly ?
> If yes, I think this web should update,
> Use git format-patch to generate patch is more convenient than use diff -urN
'diff -urN' has the advantage that it will work against a tree extracted
from a release tarball, and doesn't have a requirement that you have git
installed. Having said that, somebody who has access to the website probably
should update it to mention that both methods are acceptable....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-29 19:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-19 7:09 [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned Wang, Yalin
2014-09-19 10:00 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-09-25 14:31 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-25 15:44 ` Catalin Marinas
2014-09-26 2:40 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-09-29 19:21 ` Valdis.Kletnieks [this message]
2014-09-30 7:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König
2014-09-30 9:24 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2014-09-30 9:59 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-09-28 1:50 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-09-26 1:56 ` Wang, Yalin
2014-10-08 11:54 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2014-10-09 7:25 ` Wang, Yalin
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