update faq
PATCH 1/1 update faq
Hi KJ-ers,
One cleanup reqarding ketchup usage & one additional feature (make O=) for the FAQ.
Signed-off-by Nishanth Aravamudan <[email protected]>
faq.dev renamed from faq +12 -1
@@ -63,11 +63,22 @@ When diffing more files (especially in d that is should break hardlinks; vim can be taught by setting "set backupcopy=auto,breakhardlink" in your ~/.vimrc . Example usage: - ketchup 2.6.12 + ketchup 2.6 (currently 2.6.12) cp -al linux-2.6.12 mytree # change some random files in mytree/ diff -pruNX Documentation/dontdiff linux-2.6.12 mytree > my_new_patch +Another useful feature is the kbuild O= feature. This allows you to save +output files in a separate directory. Thus, one could, in parallel to +the linked source trees, create separate build trees, e.g. linux/views/ +and linux/build/. Example usage, presuming you followed the ketchup +steps above in a directory called views: + + cd ../build/ + mkdir linux-2.6.12 + cp backup_config_from_somewhere_else linux-2.6.12/. + cd ../views/linux-2.6.12/ + make O=$(pwd | sed s/views/build/) -j4 oldconfig bzImage Since typing Signed-off-by gets boring, here's a ~/.vimrc sample: map <F1> ^iSigned-off-by: Random C Developer <[email protected]><CR><ESC>^
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