Re: [PATCH 3.4.x 0/4] missing patches for 3.4.x (Part II)

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On 2014/6/5 11:56, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 02:55:09PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
>> On 2014/4/10 6:27, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>>> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 02:59:44PM +0800, Yijing Wang wrote:
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> These are the part II commits that I've analized from the list of
>>>> upstream commits that have been backported to 3.2 but missing from 3.4.
>>>>
>>>> For the 17 commits,
>>>>  - 4 commits were marked for stable but can't be applied cleanly to
>>>>    3.4.x.
>>>>  - 11 commits have no stable tag. I've found out why they were backported
>>>>    to 3.2.x, and I'm sure they should be applied to 3.4.x.
>>>>  - 2 commits dropped, because it fix a problem, but be reverted later.
>>>>
>>>> Please cherry-pick these commits from 3.2.x:
>>>> 01d35d12e9a7	HID: logitech: don't use stack based dj_report structures
>>>
>>> That patch didn't apply at all :(
>>
>> Hi Greg,
>>    Sorry for the late reply.
>>
>> I tested this in my platform, and it can be applied ok.
>>
>> Current linux-3.4.y branch is in version 3.4.87.
>>
>> [yijing@localhost stable]$ git branch
>>   linux-3.2.y
>> * linux-3.4.y
>>   master
>> [yijing@localhost stable]$ git cherry-pick 01d35d12e9a7
>> warning: too many files (created: 1954 deleted: 1199), skipping inexact rename detection
>> Finished one cherry-pick.
>> [linux-3.4.y 80b2238] HID: logitech: don't use stack based dj_report structures
>>  Author: Marc Dionne <marc.c.dionne@xxxxxxxxx>
>>  1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
>>
>> Something I missed ?
>>
>> So can you try it again ?
> 
> I tried it again and it turns out that git is smarter than patch/diff
> and quilt.  There is an extra line between the functions so quilt (which
> is what I use to manage stable patches) rejects the patch.  I've fixed
> it up by hand now, but I recommend you to use quilt when porting patches
> to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again.

Ok, thanks!



> 
> 


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Thanks!
Yijing

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