[PATCH] freshen up mm/proc-arm946.S

Dave Martin dave.martin at linaro.org
Thu Jul 21 13:20:29 EDT 2011


On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 12:54 AM, Brian Julin <BJulin at clarku.edu> wrote:
>
> On Monday, July 18, 2011 6:32 AM,  Dave Martin [dave.martin at linaro.org] wrote:
>>  If you've not already done so, I suggest you check that your patch
>> applies against Russell's devel-stable branch.  There has been a bit
>> of refactoring of some of these files, but I think your patch will
>> stlil apply (unfortunately I'm not in a position to test it right
>> now).
>>
>> The patch looks at least possibly correct (I'm not able to check that
>> either, today...)
>
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 411 (offset -36 lines).
> Hunk #2 succeeded at 420 (offset -36 lines).
>
> Good enough?  The "linux-next" tree on kernel.org seems to have the patched from
> arm:stable that affect this file, and from the looks of things both hunks are still needed
> and do not conflict with the renovations.

Yes, I think so.  The large offset is caused by replacement of some
code further up the file with macro calls.

I don't see any logical conflict between your patch and those changes.

If you like:

Acked-by: Dave Martin <dave.martin at linaro.org>

> So what now?  The last time I submitted a patch was over a decade ago... gerg mentioned
> something about "rmk's patch system"?

If you've not already done so, take a look at

http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/info.php
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/

Cheers
---Dave



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