From: tarbal@gmail.com (Jeff Kirsher)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Question regarding patches
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:26:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D18838.3000701@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355906820.5392.10.camel@oc2826874472.ibm.com>
On 12/19/2012 12:47 AM, Shraddha Kamat wrote:
> Sorry if this is not relevant to kernel. But since I am
> patching the kernel - Please consider this as a uber beginner
> question to ask on this mailing list - forgive me for that.
>
> Now my question is -
>
> What "@@ -321,7 +321,8 @@" mean in this snippet from the patch -
The first number -321 means the line number of the original file that
the change takes place. The next number & means that before the change,
there were 7 lines of code. The next number +321 is the line number
after the change. Since this is the first (and only change) it is the
same as the first number. If there multiple changes in a patch, this
number can differ greatly from the first number. The last number is the
lines of code after the change.
>
> diff --git a/exec.h b/exec.h
> index 722c620..6abb687 100644
> --- a/exec.h
> +++ b/exec.h
> @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ static void acct_arg_size(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
> unsigned long pages);
>
> -- Shraddha
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-19 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-19 8:47 Question regarding patches Shraddha Kamat
2012-12-19 9:26 ` Jeff Kirsher [this message]
2012-12-19 9:58 ` Lijo Antony
2012-12-19 10:13 ` Shraddha Kamat
2012-12-19 10:33 ` devendra.aaru
2012-12-19 10:33 ` Avinash Patil
2012-12-19 11:01 ` Tobias Boege
2012-12-19 17:01 ` Anand Arumugam
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