Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268081AbUIXO6r (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:58:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267388AbUIXO6r (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:58:47 -0400 Received: from kinesis.swishmail.com ([209.10.110.86]:39946 "EHLO kinesis.swishmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268081AbUIXO6p (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2004 10:58:45 -0400 Message-ID: <41543786.5090107@techsource.com> Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:04:38 -0400 From: Timothy Miller MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: Jeff Garzik , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , Jeremy Higdon Subject: Re: [DOC] Linux kernel patch submission format References: <200409221947.i8MJlnSX003715@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> In-Reply-To: <200409221947.i8MJlnSX003715@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 746 Lines: 21 Horst von Brand wrote: > Timothy Miller said: > >>Does the Linux kernel source tree include a shell script which will >>compare two trees, create patches, and ask the necessary questions so as >>to format the files correctly with all the right stuff? > > > diff(1) does what you want... So, in addition to producing the difference, diff also asks you all the questions necessary for a Linux kernel submission, properly formats them, and adds them to the diff output? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/