Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: VDSOSYM build error

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Thu, 6 Dec 2007 18:28:25 -0500
> "Miles Lane" <miles.lane@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > How can I find Roland's patches, so I can try backing them out?
> > I looked in the broken out patches and only saw one related
> > to VDSO.  Backing it out did not help.  I tried searching for
> > messages to LKML sent by "roland" but mostly got a bunch of
> > folks sending spam.
> 
> They're all clumped into git-x86.patch.  Hard.

in theory the git merges could be generated as a flat series of patch 
files:

 x86.git.foo-fixes.patch
 x86.git.bar-updates.patch
 x86.git.foo-fixes-feh.patch
 ...

which could also include the commit log. "git-log -p" might be a 
suitable generator. For example, x86.git can be processed per commit, 
via this script:

  for N in `git-rev-list --reverse --no-merges --remove-empty master..mm`; do 
    git-log -p $N
  done

the following git-export-quilt script (just wrote it, might be buggy, so 
careful - and it blows away the patches/ directory wherever you run it) 
will generate a series file into patches/series that can be applied via 
quilt:

  rm -rf patches
  mkdir patches
  for N in `git-rev-list --reverse --no-merges --remove-empty master..mm`; do
   git-log -p -1 $N > .tmp
   export SUBJECT=`head -5 .tmp | tail -1`

   # generate filename out of subject line:
   FILE=x86.git-"`echo $SUBJECT | cut -c10- |
        tr '[:punct:] \t' '-' | tr -s - | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]'`"

   # generate unique name:
   while [ -f patches/$FILE.patch ]; do FILE="$FILE"_; done

   echo $FILE.patch
   mv .tmp patches/$FILE.patch
   echo $FILE.patch >> patches/series
  done

  ls -l patches/series

i ran this script over x86.git and it produced a patch series with 247 
patches that quilt was able to push correctly. (in theory this concept 
should work for other git trees too - but i have not tried it)

this would increase the series size quite substantially though - but it 
would make cherry-picking and patch based bisection a lot easier.

	Ingo