Re: Patches for REALLY TINY 386 kernels

[Satyam Sharma]

On 7/16/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Monday 16 July 2007 08:45:26 Alan Cox wrote:
> > > > These patches were written against the vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. They
> > > > will have no effect UNLESS you make menuconfig and explicitly enable
> > > > them there.
> > >
> > > Would you please make mrproper before preparing the patch? It's harder to
> read
> > > with all the "Only in..." lines.
> >
> > A lot simpler is to feed the patch through "grep -v"
>
> Yeah. I was going for the general principle :)

Even simpler to add --exclude-from=.gitignore to diff

There's a Documentation/dontdiff file I've come across as well,
but that's horribly out-of-date and why it exists in Documentation/
I have no clue either.

Satyam
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