From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 11:16:34 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] Add perf tools support: this is the kernel patch to be applied to the kernel for kernel compile to go through; it basically adds a typedef. In-Reply-To: References: <50E54257.8050201@googlemail.com> Message-ID: <20130103111634.1338bb49@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Kaiwan Billimoria, On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 15:37:09 +0530, Kaiwan Billimoria wrote: > Also, AFAIK, the Sub line has the phrase [PATCH n/3]; where n is 0, 1, > 2 & 3, thus subject is unique (this is how git generated them). If > this is not sufficient, pl let me know.. This is not sufficient. Everything between [...] is ignored when the patch is applied. Each of your patches should have a different commit message. That said, there is no reason for those 3 patches to be separate. If you apply patch 1 alone, you have a config option that does nothing. If you apply patches 1 and 2, then things break because it will try to apply perf.patch which does not exist. So basically, you should merge all your patches. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com