Re: How to write patches

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Sourav Sen wrote: > > Hi, > > This question may seem naive, but can anyone tell me if there is any > structured way of writing patches? 1. get a base tree, e. g. 2.2.18, and unpack it into /usr/src (rename your old /usr/src/linux first) 2. rename linux you got in 1. t

Re: How to write patches

Jeff's descriprion is very informative, but his emphasis is somewhat different from what I find difficult with patches. First, for the life of me I was unable to remeber which argument goes first (DaveM was mad every time). Second, I kept forgetting to keep the base tree a diff against that instea

Re: How to write patches

Sourav Sen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > This question may seem naive, but can anyone tell me if there is any > structured way of writing patches? > > I mean suppose I want to implement some > kernel mechanism, and I define my data structures etc. and made most of > the code as loadabl