On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Michael Krufky wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Greg KH wrote: >>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:15:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >>>> In any event, something tickled the monster, and its hungry. This >>>> is a full-stop, show-stopper AFAIAC. >>>> >>>> I'll cut that patch-2.6.20.4-rc1 in halves, and build 2 more test >>>> kernels tomorrow to start a bisect if no one has any better idea >>>> before then. >>> >>> I'd recommend using the quilt tree of patches to do this, it will be >>> easier than trying to split the larger patch up into pieces by hand. >>> >>> thanks, >>> >>> greg k-h >> >> I don't have quilt installed, and no idea how to use it if it was, >> Greg. Even my git is now pushing a year old. > >Gene- > >quilt is a very easy tool to use... Here is a quick run-down. > >#1) remove the stable -rc patch from the tree > >#2) install quilt > >#3) go to your source tree, and create a directory called "patches" > >#4) copy all of the patches from Greg's queue into that "patches" > directory, including the "series" file. > >#5) quilt push, to apply the first patch > quilt push, to apply the second patch (you get the idea) > quilt push -a , to apply all patches in the series > >#6) quilt pop, to back out the most recent patch pushed in > quilt pop -a to back out the entire series. > >If a patch doesnt apply, quilt will let you know about it, and present > you with the option to force the patch to apply. This is highly > unlikely to occur, since Greg has already done what needs to be done to > make these patches apply to the source. > >For a better explanation, see "man quilt". Using quilt, when you have a > list of patches and a series file containing the merge order is *much* > easier that a git bisection, and can help you to find the problem patch > much quicker. > >I hope this helps... > It looks like, from the series files contents, that I grabbed the wrong 'queue', its all 2.6.21 stuff. url please.
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