From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 10:27:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A5AA937B422 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 10:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 75164 invoked by uid 100); 20 May 2001 17:27:15 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15111.65139.402470.761754@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 12:27:15 -0500 To: Gavin Atkinson Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to submit patches? In-Reply-To: <98211734@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gavin Atkinson types: > Hi, > > I have two patches I have made to the 4.3-RELEASE kernel, one related to > linux emulation and one relating to PCMCIA support (specifically the > Cirrus Logic 6729 PCI-PCMCIA bridge code). How do I submit these? I've > not done this before, so can someone tell me what diff options should be > used... and where to post the two patches. The linux emulation one works > fine, however the PCMCIA one i'm not sure about, other than to say it > works better than without the patch on the one laptop I have tested it on. > What's the process for patches that are essentially untested like this > second one? Use the -u option to diff, and use send-pr to submit the patches. Read the send-pr man page for more information. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message