linux-kernel - bugfix for scripts/patch-kernel in 2.6 sublevel stepping

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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:30 +0300
From:	Erkki Lintunen <ebirdie@....fi>
To:	rdunlap@...otime.net
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: bugfix for scripts/patch-kernel in 2.6 sublevel stepping


Hi,

scripts/patch-kernel script can't patch a tree, say, from 2.6.25 to 
2.6.26.1, because of a wrong comparison in context of patching 2.6.x 
base. Following patch has a fix for it.

Erkki

--- linux-2.6.26/scripts/patch-kernel   2008-04-27 19:49:14.000000000 +0300
+++ linux-2.6.26.1/scripts/patch-kernel 2008-08-03 23:34:00.000000000 +0300
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@
  if [ $stopvers != "default" ]; then
         STOPSUBLEVEL=`echo $stopvers | cut -d. -f3`
         STOPEXTRA=`echo $stopvers | cut -d. -f4`
+       STOPFULLVERSION=${stopvers%%.$STOPEXTRA}
         #echo "#___STOPSUBLEVEL=/$STOPSUBLEVEL/, STOPEXTRA=/$STOPEXTRA/"
  else
         STOPSUBLEVEL=9999
@@ -249,7 +250,7 @@
  do
      CURRENTFULLVERSION="$VERSION.$PATCHLEVEL.$SUBLEVEL"
      EXTRAVER=
-    if [ $stopvers = $CURRENTFULLVERSION ]; then
+    if [ $STOPFULLVERSION = $CURRENTFULLVERSION ]; then
          echo "Stopping at $CURRENTFULLVERSION base as requested."
          break
      fi

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