From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
To: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz, andi@lisas.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: scripts/patch-kernel should be able to digest kernel.org hosted .xz patches
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:58:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5F98E8.3070900@xenotime.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331590417-10050-1-git-send-email-shawnlandden@gmail.com>
On 03/12/2012 03:13 PM, Shawn Landden wrote:
> kernel.org is hosting patches and kernel compressed with xz (lzma2+). Allow
> scripts/patch-kernel to decompress these files.
Other than xz file decompression, does scripts/patch-kernel
work for you in Linux 3.x kernel trees?
> Signed-off-by: Shawn Landden <shawnlandden@gmail.com>
> ---
> scripts/patch-kernel | 4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/patch-kernel b/scripts/patch-kernel
> index 20fb25c..d000ea3 100755
> --- a/scripts/patch-kernel
> +++ b/scripts/patch-kernel
> @@ -116,6 +116,10 @@ findFile () {
> ext=".bz2"
> name="bzip2"
> uncomp="bunzip2 -dc"
> + elif [ -r ${filebase}.xz ]; then
> + ext=".xz"
> + name="xz"
> + uncomp="xz -dc"
> elif [ -r ${filebase}.zip ]; then
> ext=".zip"
> name="zip"
--
~Randy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 18:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-12 22:13 Shawn Landden
2012-03-13 18:58 ` Randy Dunlap [this message]
2012-03-30 13:24 ` Michal Marek
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