Re: [PATCH 06/18] x86 vDSO: arch/x86/vdso/vdso32

[Thomas Gleixner]

On Tue, 20 Nov 2007, Roland McGrath wrote:

> > >  rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-int80_32.S => vdso/vdso32/int80.S} (97%)
> > >  rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-note_32.S => vdso/vdso32/note.S} (95%)
> > >  rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-sigreturn_32.S => vdso/vdso32/sigreturn.S} (100%)
> > >  rename arch/x86/{kernel/vsyscall-sysenter_32.S => vdso/vdso32/sysenter.S} (99%)
> > 
> > I just stumbled accross those renames, when I tried to apply your
> > series from the mailbox. I guess there is some option to git which
> > creates a real patch. I fixed it up manually for now.
> 
> You don't have to do anything manual.  git-apply handles these fine.
> >From my introduction post (00/18):
> 
> 	There are several renames in here, so GIT can apply them but maybe patch
> 	can't.  (If there is a switch to git-format-patch to produce something
> 	more universally applicable, I haven't found it.)

Sorry my bad. I skipped that while reading through the series. git
rants are in my builtin "skip this section" regex patterns :)

I do not use git-apply of course.

git format-patch -p

does the trick at least here :)

     tglx



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