Hello,

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 03:21:58PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:

On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:40:54 +0800, "Wang, Yalin" said:

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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

That's wrong, patches generated by git-format-patch are also applicable
just fine on top of an extracted tar ball by patch(1).

Best regards
Uwe

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