From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200 Message-ID: <20140930070209.GG31554@pengutronix.de> References: <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB49161F@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net> <20140919095959.GA2295@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20140925143142.GF5182@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20140925154403.GL10390@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB49163B@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net> <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux , "Wang, Yalin" , 'Catalin Marinas' , Will Deacon , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" , "'linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org'" , DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux , "'linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org'" List-Id: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org Hello, On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:21:58PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800, "Wang, Yalin" said: > = > > I am really confused, > > I read this web: > > http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php > > it said use diff -urN to generate patch like this: > > > > diff -Nru linux.orig/lib/string.c linux/lib/string.c > > > > but I see other developers use git format-patch to generate patch and > > submit to the patch system. > > Git format-patch format can also be accepted by the patch system correc= tly ? > > If yes, I think this web should update, > > Use git format-patch to generate patch is more convenient than use diff= -urN > = > 'diff -urN' has the advantage that it will work against a tree extracted > from a release tarball, and doesn't have a requirement that you have git That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1). Best regards Uwe -- = Pengutronix e.K. | Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ |