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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711202348470.25057@localhost.localdomain>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 00:07:28 +0100 (CET)
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86 vDSO: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32
On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-int80_32.S => vdso/vdso32/int80.S} (97%)
> > > rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-note_32.S => vdso/vdso32/note.S} (95%)
> > > rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn_32.S => vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S} (100%)
> > > rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-sysenter_32.S => vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S} (99%)
> >
> > I just stumbled accross those renames, when I tried to apply your
> > series from the mailbox. I guess there is some option to git which
> > creates a real patch. I fixed it up manually for now.
>
> You don't have to do anything manual. git-apply handles these fine.
> >From my introduction post (00/18):
>
> There are several renames in here, so GIT can apply them but maybe patch
> can't. (If there is a switch to git-format-patch to produce something
> more universally applicable, I haven't found it.)
Sorry my bad. I skipped that while reading through the series. git
rants are in my builtin "skip this section" regex patterns :)
I do not use git-apply of course.
git format-patch -p
does the trick at least here :)
tglx
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