From: lijo.kernel@gmail.com (Lijo Antony)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Question regarding patches
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:58:24 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D18FC0.7020103@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1355906820.5392.10.camel@oc2826874472.ibm.com>
On 12/19/2012 12:47 PM, 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 -
>
> 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);
>
http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/Detailed-Unified.html
http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=164293
-lijo
> -- Shraddha
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Kernelnewbies mailing list
> Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org
> http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-19 9:58 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
2012-12-19 9:58 ` Lijo Antony [this message]
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
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=50D18FC0.7020103@gmail.com \
--to=lijo.kernel@gmail.com \
--cc=kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).