Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 08:22:41 -0700
From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
Cc: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, jgarzik@pobox.com, dwmw2@infradead.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jeremy@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [DOC] Linux kernel patch submission format
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 11:04:38 -0400 Timothy Miller wrote:

| 
| 
| Horst von Brand wrote:
| > Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> 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?

Of course not.  There is no script in the kernel tree that does
what you asked... but you probably knew that.

Is one really needed?  or maybe a GUI IDE is all that is required.


--
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)
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