From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-qc0-f179.google.com (mail-qc0-f179.google.com [209.85.216.179]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26B636B0035 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:22:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-qc0-f179.google.com with SMTP id x3so2223147qcv.38 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:22:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omr1.cc.vt.edu (omr1.cc.ipv6.vt.edu. [2001:468:c80:2105:0:2fc:76e3:30de]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g2si14565981qcz.19.2014.09.29.12.22.48 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 29 Sep 2014 12:22:48 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH resend] arm:extend the reserved memory for initrd to be page aligned In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800." <35FD53F367049845BC99AC72306C23D103D6DB49163B@CNBJMBX05.corpusers.net> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1412018518_2318P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2014 15:21:58 -0400 Message-ID: <15815.1412018518@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: "Wang, Yalin" Cc: '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'" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?=27Uwe_Kleine-K=F6nig=27?= , DL-WW-ContributionOfficers-Linux --==_Exmh_1412018518_2318P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 installed. Having said that, somebody who has access to the website probably should update it to mention that both methods are acceptable.... --==_Exmh_1412018518_2318P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iQIVAwUBVCmxVgdmEQWDXROgAQJ8Aw/8Dn0LeCawFXirdyHOs3Xko9A21ez4vIQ1 n15/VJf6JTgVmqbBR7W+oKG1qPipw/ladt7YNKnOJqwGpu+Gj0azwRZjkQKwZepV 7fijIkb49Hx2T1Wwmmr/0qCroihVoxwGpdj22oyxhUpXXjtuwIhOxso7v3BoeaFU FCgzURL+n1uGCB1uoh4N4E54/MbOUQa/bBJnNiDc1g9FRpXAOMkchOrG661uLbAc qRxJdJgfS06KwQ9KPLNHMbFU+x+8ngY4aL8F9z/DlZn9Y0ZWzCB0+8gSVlcUk1Bk Tf3OMs/fpmbl/YUtBtiduGBoy4gr/4W427JceEk6jTEMuIXcKs6dHzShryDcKhas W4mcZcrQ48O9d6ZdwZB/Wa7M0R4hi6hN3lUh0a1884Db7QLfxotMfCfNQbW79P+K cojkR5PWHVlMLbnPISuZkC6Imoa4ylnSJd3U2Zy6jaZ7paUAsj/BaFVFxwata41e l4OKMJIemo3FFJ/0NvLvEZ4HdfBTLO74Jz9zfIU9q98/FJfnQXSNynViJzaxabhG EdSkoluI/CkVttjLooYAUDNY/dTmvdowMUsOU+5h7xJtWf+XndIMl7NN+6weHoRV rSbqOsvZDxfLjFdNKnedrygV1qovfH2o62cXYfJK00ERFypchVZ36NdlqovAIwst 9ve3thPVwd8= =4N/Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1412018518_2318P-- -- 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