On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 15:50 -0500, Jean Delvare wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:39:32 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:18 -0500, Anish Patel wrote: > > > here is the driver for the emc1023 and the makefile patch. > > > i've spent a couple hours now trying to figure out how to create a patch > > > for a new file, and can't find anything. > > > if someone would care to point me in the right direction i'll resubmit, > > > but at this point i am tired of trying to figure this out. > > > Doc/SubmittingDrivers and SubmittingPatches is no help on how to do this. > > > > Nowadays, pretty much everyone uses git. > > I very much doubt it. > Ok, point taken. > > Clone a new kernel tree from > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git. > > You're suggesting Anish to download over 1 GB of kernel data history > just to write one small patch? > Guess so. Didn't really occur to me that might be a problem. > > > Make your changes. Commit locally into your git repository. If > > necessary, use "git rebase -i" to merge multiple commits into one when > > you are ready to submit the driver. > > > > Generate a patch file, for example for the most recent commit, with "git > > format-patch -s HEAD~1". > > Even me have never used these git commands. I doubt that pointing an > inexperienced developer in that direction is going to work. > Hey, even I learned to use it ;) > If anything, quilt is one order of magnitude easier to deal with IMHO, > and it doesn't require downloading anything Anish doesn't already have > (short of quilt itself, but it's pretty small.) > Fine with me too. For whatever reason, I never got it to work, though, so I ended up sticking with git. Guess it is for the individual to decide if git or quilt is easier to deal with ... Cheers, Guenter _______________________________________________ lm-sensors mailing list lm-sensors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.lm-sensors.org/mailman/listinfo/lm-sensors
