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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:42:19 +0100
From: "J . A . Magallon" <jamagallon@able.es>
To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com>
Cc: "Justin T . Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: aic7xxx (and sym53c8xx) plans
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On 02.15 Chip Salzenberg wrote:
> According to J . A . Magallon:
> 
> Might I suggest that Justin imitate the maintainers of lm_sensors, and
> create a program (shell script, Perl program, whatever) that *creates*
> a patch against any given Linux source tree?  Obviously it could break
> in the face of weird trees, but even minimal flexibility would save him
> a lot of work ...

So you can end with 1Mb of patch doing

-#endif /* Hello */
+#endif Hello

like happens in i2c-lm

Better a real patch...
 
-- 
J.A. Magallon                                                      $> cd pub
mailto:jamagallon@able.es                                          $> more beer

Linux werewolf 2.4.1-ac14 #1 SMP Thu Feb 15 16:05:52 CET 2001 i686

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