From: "Uwe Kleine-König" <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@sonymobile.com>,
"'Catalin Marinas'" <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@arm.com>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"'linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org'"
<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
"'linux-mm@kvack.org'" <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
"'linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org>,
DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux
<DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux@sonymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140930070209.GG31554@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Hello,
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:21:58PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> 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
That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable
just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1).
Best regards
Uwe
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 7:17 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
2014-09-30 7:02 ` Uwe Kleine-König [this message]
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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