Re: [meta-oe][PATCH] dosfstools-2.11: Fix memory leak in mkdosfs

[Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com>]

On 08/06/2015 12:06 PM, Amarnath Valluri wrote:
> Added new patch that fixes the memory leak that was introduced in
> mkdosfs-dir.patch.

You should update the original patch then, not pile additional patches 
on top. The least painful way is:

1) unpack the sources (manually from tarball, or using bitbake -c unpack)
2) 'git init; git add *; git commit' to create an git repository from 
the sources
3) apply the patch that needs fixing, then do the fix
4) make a git commit, then produce a patch using git format-patch, then 
move the new patch back to the recipe directory and update the recipe
5) build the recipe to make sure it still builds
6) make a git commit with the recipe update, and submit it here :)

Alex