Re: implementing a classic Xen front/back pv driver pair to provide a transport for 9P FS Protocol

[Linda <lindaj@jma3.com>]

First, Julien, your suggestion worked like a charm.
So here's what's happened tonight.  I tried to build the tools directory 
of my git repository.  Although I used the sudo command in my virtual 
ubuntu, I got a permission denied error  126 on xen_foreign.

Second, I tried to follow the protocol for submitting my patches.  I 
changed libxl_utils.c and libxl_utils.h, in my repository, add and 
commit them.  Unfortunately, I didn't include my signature (next page of 
instructions I was following), and couldn't figure how to get back in to 
add them.

Finally, I tried git send-email (took a bit to find I had to install 
it).  Now it doesn't like the format of my send-email:
  to the devlopers list above and cc'ing Julien and Wei, followed by:
1.  following this with the files (even with --no-format-patch), error 
was "no subject line"
2.  (different attempt) the repository "master"  error complained about 
the format patch

SO   if anyone is up at an ungodly hour and can explain any of these 
errors to me (I'm in Colorado - so it's 7:30 here), especially with a 
fix, I'd be grateful.  Otherwise, Julien, Wei, I'll start at about 7am 
my time, maybe a little earlier.

Thanks.

Linda Jacobson

On 4/1/2015 2:57 PM, Julien Grall wrote:
>
>
> On 01/04/2015 18:46, Linda wrote:
>> I'll try it.  That's the
>>
>> libvncserver-dev libsdl-dev libjpeg62-dev
>>
>> Should I keep the libsdl-dev?
>>
>>    In the meantime, I'm following the git protocol for patches. I
>> successfully cloned xen.git.  The next statement in the directions - I
>> can't tell if it's one statement on many lines, or many statements.  It
>> starts out git branch -a
>> When I type this alone, I get "Not a git repository"  When I type in the
>> many lines as a single command I get the error message:
>> origin/master no such file or directory
>
> You have to type the command "git branch -a"  in the git repository 
> (i.e the directory xen.git).
>
>
>>
>> This comes from the line remotes/origin/HEAD->origin
>>
>> ?????
>
> This is normal. The line starting by '$' is a command. Everything else 
> is an example output of the execution of the command.
>
> Obviously, you have to drop the '$' when typing copying the command.
>
> To go further, '$' means a command to execute with your current user 
> and '#' a command to execute with root privileges (i.e adding sudo 
> before).
>
> This is usually a standard on Linux/BSD shell documentation.
>
> Although, there is some place within this wiki page where the command 
> doesn't have '$'/'#' (see [1]). So you to judge yourself if the line 
> looks like a command or not :).
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] 
> http://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Submitting_Xen_Project_Patches#Git_send-email
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>