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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, jgarzik@pobox.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jeremy@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [DOC] Linux kernel patch submission format
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:22:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040924082241.6bb1c849.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41543786.5090107@techsource.com>

On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:04:38 -0400 Timothy Miller wrote:

| 
| 
| Horst von Brand wrote:
| > Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> said:
| > 
| >>Does the Linux kernel source tree include a shell script which will 
| >>compare two trees, create patches, and ask the necessary questions so as 
| >>to format the files correctly with all the right stuff?
| > 
| > 
| > diff(1) does what you want...
| 
| So, in addition to producing the difference, diff also asks you all the 
| questions necessary for a Linux kernel submission, properly formats 
| them, and adds them to the diff output?

Of course not.  There is no script in the kernel tree that does
what you asked... but you probably knew that.

Is one really needed?  or maybe a GUI IDE is all that is required.


--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)

  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-24 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-31  8:08 Jeff Garzik
2004-08-31 11:41 ` Neil Horman
2004-08-31 16:17 ` Erik Mouw
2004-08-31 16:37 ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-31 17:15   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-31 17:17     ` David Woodhouse
2004-08-31 17:25       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-09-01  1:27       ` Lee Revell
2004-09-22 18:59     ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-22 19:47       ` Horst von Brand
2004-09-23  7:46         ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-24 15:04         ` Timothy Miller
2004-09-24 15:22           ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
2004-10-20 19:34             ` Timothy Miller
2004-08-31 17:07 ` Sam Ravnborg
2004-08-31 17:11   ` Jeff Garzik
2004-08-31 17:50 ` Patrick Dreker
2004-08-31 18:01   ` Jeff Garzik

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