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From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@XenSource.com>
Subject: Re: BUG: make O= broken
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2006 11:08:46 +0000
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On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:00 +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
> I've tried to turn the sparse tree into a big patch (is there an easy
> way to do this btw?).

make linux-2.6-xen.patch should give you a patch against the upstream
kernel, is that what you are looking for?

>   Documentation/dontdiff excludes too much giving
> me a incomplete xenlinux tree, which in turn generated build errors
> looking much like it takes the wrong (native) include files.  I've seen
> that in the past with O=, so I blamed it first ...

That's strange -- I wouldn't expect the sparse tree to add anything
which would be listed in dontdiff. Are the symlinks into the sparse tree
confusing diff perhaps?

Ian.