From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: make mkpatches Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 18:03:13 -0700 Message-ID: <20050923010313.GT7901@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com Errors-To: xen-devel-bounces@lists.xensource.com To: James Harper Cc: Xen-devel@lists.xensource.com List-Id: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org * James Harper (james.harper@bendigoit.com.au) wrote: > 'make mkpatches' gives me a patch which, when applied to a pristine > 2.6.12 kernel, doesn't compile. It complains about a missing file > 'smp_alt.h'. > This is against xen-unstable checked out about 12 hours ago, and I'm > trying to make something that debian can use as a patch. Sounds like you're not picking up the patches that get applied to the base tree from patches/linux-2.6.12/ (btw, the smp_alts.patch won't compile on plain x86, it's missing a trivial fix).