From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Greg KH Subject: Re: Re-done kernel archive - real one? Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:14:07 -0700 Message-ID: <20050418221407.GA20290@kroah.com> References: <1113774736.3884.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050417231959.A30656@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050417235136.B30656@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20050418150456.GC12750@kroah.com> <20050418220541.GB19744@kroah.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Russell King , David Woodhouse , Git Mailing List , Peter Anvin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 19 00:11:06 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DNeS6-0007cP-WB for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:10:47 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261190AbVDRWOp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:14:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261191AbVDRWOp (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:14:45 -0400 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:6540 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261190AbVDRWOm (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 Apr 2005 18:14:42 -0400 Received: from [192.168.0.10] (c-24-22-118-199.hsd1.or.comcast.net [24.22.118.199]) (authenticated) by perch.kroah.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3IMEUi31746; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:14:32 -0700 Received: from greg by echidna.kroah.org with local (masqmail 0.2.19) id 1DNeVL-5HV-00; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:14:07 -0700 To: Linus Torvalds Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050418220541.GB19744@kroah.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:05:41PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 08:42:14AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Greg KH wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 04:24:24PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > > > > Tools absolutely matter. And it will take time for us to build up that > > > > kind of helper infrastructure. So being newbie might be part of it, but > > > > it's the smaller part, I say. Rough interfaces is a big issue. > > > > > > Speaking of tools, you had a "dotest" program to apply patches in email > > > form to a bk tree. And from what I can gather, you've changed that to > > > handle git archives, right? > > > > Yup. > > > > It's a git archive at > > > > kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/torvalds/git-tools.git > > > > and it seems to work. It's what I've used for all the kernel patches > > (except for the merge), and it's what I use for the git stuff that shows > > up as authored by others. > > Hm, have you pushed all of the recent changes public? I get the > following when trying to apply a patch: > $ ../git-tools/dotest < ~/linux/patches/usb/usb-visor-tapwave_zodiac.patch > mailsplit Doh, you want it as a command line argument now. Stupid me... Anyway, I try it this way and get: $ dotest ~/linux/patches/usb/usb-visor-tapwave_zodiac.patch Applying USB: visor Tapwave Zodiac support patch fatal: preparing to update file 'drivers/usb/serial/visor.c' not uptodate in cache What did I forget to do? thanks, greg k-h