Re: [patch 00/31] 2.6.20-stable review

Gene Heskett
2007-03-21T03:04:47Z

On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Michael Krufky wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Tuesday 20 March 2007, Greg KH wrote:
>>> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:15:02AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> In any event, something tickled the monster, and its hungry. This
>>>> is a full-stop, show-stopper AFAIAC.
>>>>
>>>> I'll cut that patch-2.6.20.4-rc1 in halves, and build 2 more test
>>>> kernels tomorrow to start a bisect if no one has any better idea
>>>> before then.
>>>
>>> I'd recommend using the quilt tree of patches to do this, it will be
>>> easier than trying to split the larger patch up into pieces by hand.
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>>
>>> greg k-h
>>
>> I don't have quilt installed, and no idea how to use it if it was,
>> Greg. Even my git is now pushing a year old.
>
>Gene-
>
>quilt is a very easy tool to use... Here is a quick run-down.
>
>#1) remove the stable -rc patch from the tree
>
>#2) install quilt
>
>#3) go to your source tree, and create a directory called "patches"
>
>#4) copy all of the patches from Greg's queue into that "patches"
> directory, including the "series" file.
>
>#5) quilt push, to apply the first patch
> quilt push, to apply the second patch (you get the idea)
> quilt push -a , to apply all patches in the series
>
>#6) quilt pop, to back out the most recent patch pushed in
> quilt pop -a to back out the entire series.
>
>If a patch doesnt apply, quilt will let you know about it, and present
> you with the option to force the patch to apply. This is highly
> unlikely to occur, since Greg has already done what needs to be done to
> make these patches apply to the source.
>
>For a better explanation, see "man quilt". Using quilt, when you have a
> list of patches and a series file containing the merge order is *much*
> easier that a git bisection, and can help you to find the problem patch
> much quicker.
>
>I hope this helps...
>
It looks like, from the series files contents, that I grabbed the
wrong 'queue', its all 2.6.21 stuff. url please.

Thanks.

>Good Luck,
>
>Michael Krufky

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