From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757090AbWKVWyO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:54:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757092AbWKVWyO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:54:14 -0500 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:7142 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757087AbWKVWyO (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:54:14 -0500 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Randy Dunlap Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] swsusp: Fix labels Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 23:50:18 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: Nigel Cunningham , Andrew Morton , Pavel Machek , LKML References: <200611182335.27453.rjw@sisk.pl> <200611190025.06860.rjw@sisk.pl> <20061122143241.6b1a34ac.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <20061122143241.6b1a34ac.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611222350.19243.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:32, Randy Dunlap wrote: > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006 00:25:06 +0100 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > On Sunday, 19 November 2006 00:06, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > Move all labels in the swsusp code to the second column, so that they won't > > > > fool diff -p. > > > > > > This sounds like working around brokenness in diff -p. Should/could a > > > patch be submitted to the diff maintainer instead? > > > > No. This feature of diff is actually documented. > > > > There was a discussion on LKML about it some time ago and the patch follows > > the conclusion. > > There was discussion, and then both Jesper and I tried to > reproduce the problem with diff and could not do so. > Maybe it has already been fixed. (?) Well, I'm not sure. Greetings, Rafael -- You never change things by fighting the existing reality. R. Buckminster Fuller