[LinuxBIOS] AMD cs5536 uart disable

[Uwe Hermann]

On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 09:44:00PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> On 03/06/07 01:59 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote:
> >  - Please run 'svn diff' at the top-level directory (easier to see
> >    which files shall be patched).
> 
> Not sure what you mean by that - are you looking for the diffstat?

Ah, no, sorry for being unclear.

Running 'svn diff > foo.patch' in a subdirectory, e.g. in
src/southbridge/amd/cs5536, will produce a patch with entries in the
following format:

Index: cs5536.c
===================================================================
--- cs5536.c    (revision 2705)
+++ cs5536.c    (working copy)

Running 'svn diff > foo.patch' at the top-level directory of the svn
working copy will produce entries such as the following:

Index: src/southbridge/amd/cs5536/cs5536.c
===================================================================
--- src/southbridge/amd/cs5536/cs5536.c (revision 2708)
+++ src/southbridge/amd/cs5536/cs5536.c (working copy)

I.e., the "full" relative path to the file being modified is included
in the patch, so you can 'patch -p0 < ~/foo.patch' at the top-level to
apply the patch.

The first version is harder to deal with, as you have to know in which
directory the file 'cs5536.c' resides, cd into that directory and run
'patch -p0 < ~/foo.patch' there.

Not too hard for cs5536.c, but imagine a patch which changes a file
which can be located just about anywhere (e.g. Config.lb). We'd have to
guess or ask the patch submitter to which file the patch must be applied.

Hence -> 'svn diff' at the top-level directory is easier to handle for us.


Thanks, Uwe.
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