linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Improve usability in case of init binary failure

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Date:	Tue, 2 Feb 2010 09:20:41 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Andreas Mohr <andi@...as.de>,
	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve usability in case of init binary failure

On Mon, 1 Feb 2010 23:10:51 -0800 (PST) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> 
> > Well, took quite a while longer, partly due to broken Broadcom USB host
> > (OpenWrt fix to be submitted) and non-working USB-audio on nicer platforms.
> > 
> > Took most of the comments into account (thanks!), improved some wording.
> > 
> > Patch against current git, compile- and runtime-tested,
> > checkpatch.pl'd (with a single nice hierarchy warning resulting from mixing
> > git diff output and manual /dev/null diffing).
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> 
> It looks like this patch got mangled when added to mmotm-2010-02-01-16-25 
> in init-mainc-improve-usability-in-case-of-init-binary-failure.patch since 
> it added init.txt to the root directory instead of Documentation,

ah, thanks.

> even though the patch below is correct.

Nope, the patch was wrong:

> > --- a/init/main.c
> > +++ b/init/main.c
> ...
> > --- /dev/null	2009-12-27 16:25:29.521258205 +0100
> > +++ Documentation/init.txt	2009-12-27 15:47:46.000000000 +0100

Should've been a/Documentation/init.txt

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