Re: Linux 2.6.30-rc2

[Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:01 AM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Apr 2009, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>>
>> There are lots of conflictions when I apply it to 2.6.29.
>>
>> Bleow are just some.
>>
>> patching file arch/arm/configs/xm_x2xx_defconfig
>> Hunk #1 FAILED at 1.
>> Hunk #2 succeeded at 62 (offset -1 lines).
>
> Damn.
>
> It patches just fine if you use "git apply".
>
> The problem? I had enabled rename detection in my .gitconfig due to
> testing a git patch, and forgotten all about it. So when I generated the
> patch, it had rename detection on. And so part of the patch looks like
>
>        diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/xm_x2xx_defconfig b/arch/arm/configs/cm_x2xx_defconfig
>        similarity index 83%
>        copy from arch/arm/configs/xm_x2xx_defconfig
>        copy to arch/arm/configs/cm_x2xx_defconfig
>        index 1039f36..797b790 100644
>        --- a/arch/arm/configs/xm_x2xx_defconfig
>        +++ b/arch/arm/configs/cm_x2xx_defconfig
>        @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
>         #
>         # Automatically generated make config: don't edit
>        -# Linux kernel version: 2.6.27-rc8
>        -# Sun Oct  5 11:05:36 2008
>        +# Linux kernel version: 2.6.29-rc2
>        +# Sun Feb  1 16:31:36 2009
>         #
>         CONFIG_ARM=y
>        ...
>
> and other parts just contain pure renames, and "patch" obviously won't
> understand any of that.
>
> My bad. I didn't mean to leave people without git out in the rain. I've
> re-uploaded a fixed one that doesn't have those git features..
>
> Alessandro - did you also do things by applying that patch? Maybe your
> compile failure can be explained by the same thing, and just comes from
> not noticing the patch apply failure.

Must have been that for sure... I re-downloaded the patch and
 successfully rebuilt 2.6.30-rc2, thanks !

> Sorry about that. The fixed patch is on master.kernel.org and should be
> mirroring out asap. And I've fixed my .gitconfig, and hopefully this won't
> happen again.
>
>                Linus


--alessandro

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