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

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Date:	Sun, 3 Aug 2008 15:00:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@...otime.net>
To:	Erkki Lintunen <ebirdie@....fi>
cc:	rdunlap@...otime.net, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: bugfix for scripts/patch-kernel in 2.6 sublevel stepping

On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Erkki Lintunen wrote:

> 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

Hi,

This does work better than the current script in the kernel tree.

The larger question:  is does anyone still use this script?

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>


Andrew, please merge.


> --- 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

-- 
~Randy
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