RE: [Xen-devel] make mkpatches

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 10:19 -0700, Shaun wrote:
> Is that going to give me a old patch?

It'll give you a patch from 2.6.18 to the version of 2.6.18-xen.hg which
you have checked out, i.e. as recent as you like.

> Also whats the current tree doing now, is it coming with the kernel source
> already modified?

ïlinux-2.6.18-xen is a tree with all the xen stuff already applied.

The xen-unstable and xen-3.2 trees checkout linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
automatically and build that instead of the old sparse tree (which no
longer exists).

Ian.


> 
> ~Shaun
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Campbell [mailto:Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 1:04 AM
> To: Shaun R.
> Cc: xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] make mkpatches
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 09:49 -0700, Shaun R. wrote:
> > What happened to `make mkpatches`, i need to generate a patch to use
> against
> > vanilla kernels?
> 
> I guess it went away when the sparse tree was split out from the main
> repository into linux-2.6.18-xen.hg
> 
> There is a tag for v2.6.18 in that tree so "hg diff -r v2.6.18" should
> produce the patch you want.
> 
> Ian.
> 
> 
> 


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