linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned

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Message-ID: <14252.1412069081@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2014 05:24:41 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	Uwe Kleine-König 
	<u.kleine-koenig@...gutronix.de>
Cc:	"Wang, Yalin" <Yalin.Wang@...ymobile.com>,
	"'Catalin Marinas'" <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Will Deacon <Will.Deacon@....com>,
	"'linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"'linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org'" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"'linux-mm@...ck.org'" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"'linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org'" <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>,
	DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux 
	<DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux@...ymobile.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned

On Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200, Uwe Kleine-König said:

> > 'diff -urN' has the advantage that it will work against a tree extracted
> > from a release tarball, and doesn't have a requirement that you have git

> That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable
> just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1).

How you going to do a git-format-patch without git and a git tree? :)

(Remember, we're talking about *generating* patches, not applying them)

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