On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:52 PM, Kumar Gaurav <kumargauravgupta3@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Dan, > > > I have fixed several bugs in a program in staging and now want to send it to > > you before sending to maintainers. But currently i don't have git clone of > > current kernel. I had downloaded full tarball of 3.11-rc1 version. > > > So please tell me if there's a way to formate a mail and create a path for > the > > fix that i did. So that you can review my code. > > > Curently i'm cloning kernel using git but it seems like it'll take forever > as > > i dnt have very fast Internet connection speed and it seems to download > around > > 1200MB of data from last 2hr i've completed with just 5%. So let me know if > > there's way w/o git. You can create a git repository from the source code you've downloaded. See the steps: $ wget https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2 $ tar xvjf linux-3.10.2.tar.bz2 $ cd linux-3.10.2/ $ git init $ git add * $ git commit -m 'initial commit' It is important to do the git commands 'before' doing any change to the source code. After creating the git repository, all git commands should work. > > > Regards > > Kumar Gaurav > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" > in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Peter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
