From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lb0-f174.google.com (mail-lb0-f174.google.com [209.85.217.174]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57E656B0035 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:17:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-lb0-f174.google.com with SMTP id p9so874826lbv.5 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:17:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from metis.ext.pengutronix.de (metis.ext.pengutronix.de. [92.198.50.35]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p1si21253432lap.104.2014.09.30.00.17.34 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 30 Sep 2014 00:17:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 09:02:09 +0200 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned 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-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: "Wang, Yalin" , 'Catalin Marinas' , Russell King - ARM Linux , Will Deacon , "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" , "'linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org'" , "'linux-mm@kvack.org'" , "'linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org'" , DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux 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 correctly ? > > 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-Konig | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org