2002-12-12 23:53:12

by Matthias Juchem

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Subject: [PATCHlet] Documentation/SubmittingPatches

Hi.

This little patch shall reflect that the kernel tree is now extracted to
linux-x.y.z instead of linux.
Besides, it updates the version number in the examples.

Diff is against 2.5.51.

Regards,
Matthias

diff -urN linux-2.5.51/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
linux-2.5.51-mj/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
--- linux-2.5.51/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Tue Dec 10 03:45:42 2002
+++ linux-2.5.51-mj/Documentation/SubmittingPatches Fri Dec 13 00:44:16 2002
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@

To create a patch for a single file, it is often sufficient to do:

- SRCTREE= /devel/linux-2.4
+ SRCTREE= /devel/linux-2.5
MYFILE= drivers/net/mydriver.c

cd $SRCTREE
@@ -45,10 +45,10 @@
or unmodified kernel source tree, and generate a diff against your
own source tree. For example:

- MYSRC= /devel/linux-2.4
+ MYSRC= /devel/linux-2.5

- tar xvfz linux-2.4.0-test11.tar.gz
- mv linux linux-vanilla
+ tar xvfz linux-2.5.51.tar.gz
+ mv linux-2.5.51 linux-vanilla
wget http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff
diff -urN -X dontdiff linux-vanilla $MYSRC > /tmp/patch
rm -f dontdiff