On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:45, Jim Nelson wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Russell King wrote: > | On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > | > |>What are the options normally used to generate a diff for public > |>consumption on this list? > | > | > | diff -urpN orig new > | > | where "orig" and "new" both contain the top level "linux" directory, > | so the resulting patch can be applied with patch -p1. > | > > You'd also want to add "-x dontdiff", using > > http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/dontdiff-osdl > > That way, you can do a diff, even if you have run a compile in one of the > directory trees.
Hey, why isn't that is the documentation? I didn't hear of it until now. Is this what most developers are using for 2.6, if so then we need the following trivial documentation update. Created against the Docs in 2.6.11 --- SubmittingPatches.orig 2005-03-08 23:09:19.496223848 -0500 +++ SubmittingPatches 2005-03-08 23:18:52.192160832 -0500 @@ -60,6 +60,9 @@ the build process, and should be ignored in any diff(1)-generated patch. dontdiff is maintained by Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> +For 2.6 kernels you can fetch dontdiff-osdl maintained by Randy Dunlap. +wget http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/dontdiff-osdl + - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
