[PATCH 2.6.2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches

[driver@megahappy.net (Bryan Whitehead)]

I've been trying to get my feet wet by submitting trivial patchs to various maintainers and the responses have been, "your not submiting you patches correctly". It seems most developers/maintainers want a diff done like this:

cd /source-tree
diff -u linux-2.6.2/FileToPatch.orig linux-2.6.2/FileToPatch

instead of the "SubmitingPatches" document way:
cd /source-tree/linux-2.6.2
diff -u FileToPatch.orig FileToPatch

It would be _great_ if the Documentation was more accurate to the taste of developers/maintainers...

If the SubmittingPatches document is correct, then just toss this patch out because this won't be submitted right... ;)

--- linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.orig    2004-02-04 22:57:55.818563016 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2004-02-04 23:01:28.799185040 -0800
@@ -33,13 +33,15 @@
                                                                                                                                    
 To create a patch for a single file, it is often sufficient to do:
                                                                                                                                    
-       SRCTREE= /devel/linux-2.4
+       SRCTREE= /devel/
+       SRCDIR= linux-2.4
        MYFILE=  drivers/net/mydriver.c
                                                                                                                                    
-       cd $SRCTREE
+       cd $SRCTREE/$SRCDIR
        cp $MYFILE $MYFILE.orig
        vi $MYFILE      # make your change
-       diff -u $MYFILE.orig $MYFILE > /tmp/patch
+       cd $SRCTREE
+       diff -u $SRCDIR/$MYFILE.orig $SRCDIR/$MYFILE > /tmp/patch
                                                                                                                                    
 To create a patch for multiple files, you should unpack a "vanilla",
 or unmodified kernel source tree, and generate a diff against your


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Bryan Whitehead
Email:driver@megahappy.net
WorkE:driver@jpl.nasa.gov